On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 11:50, VanL <van@scratch.space> wrote:
Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden> writes:
> After checking all the obvious things, I remembered seeing something about supporting the
> XDG standards, and because of this I found a directory $HOME/.config/emacs. This directoriy
> contained a single file whose name I cannot remember. As far as I can rceall, this file was
> empty. I deleted this directory and restarted Emacs. At this point my init file was loaded
> correctly.
The confusion is gone after readin the NEWS outline file.
I didn't have to read it. I knew about this behaviour. I'm talking about regular users of Emacs, most of which have never heard about the NEWS file, nor would they be reading it even if they knew about it.
Regards,
Elias