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Re: Default emacs init file location confusion
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
Re: Default emacs init file location confusion |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:44:33 +0100 |
>>>>> On Wed, 08 Jan 2020 19:35:34 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> said:
>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>> address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:25:10 +0100
>>
>> I donʼt think itʼs likely that people will accidentally create
>> ~/.config/emacs
Eli> But such accident was exactly what started this discussion. So
Eli> evidently the probability of that happening is higher than we assume.
Not really. *emacs* created that directory, not the user, and thatʼs
exactly what weʼre trying to prevent (well, I am :-) ).
>> I feel that 'use x if it exists, else use y' is less prone to
>> confusion than 'use x if it exists unless y exists').
Eli> The advantage of the latter is that it's fully backward-compatible.
It is, but 'use this new thing only if you create it' is pretty
unsurprising as well, weʼre not going to stop using .emacs.d and force
people to use ~/.config/emacs.
Robert
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, (continued)
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Stefan Monnier, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Stefan Monnier, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Mingde (Matthew) Zeng, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion,
Robert Pluim <=
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Yuan Fu, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Yuan Fu, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Robert Pluim, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Stefan Monnier, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/08
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/01/10
- Re: Default emacs init file location confusion, Paul Eggert, 2020/01/10