Re: Default emacs init file location confusion

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:27:26 +0000, Colin Baxter <address@hidden> said:

>>>>> Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:53:47 +0100, Robert Pluim <address@hidden> said:
    Robert> This requires an etc/NEWS update as well.

    >> Comments definitely welcome. Any hint of possible ambiguity is to
    >> be ruthlessly eliminated.

    >> +++ ** Emacs can now use the XDG convention for init files.  For
    >> example, it can look for init.el in "~/.config/emacs/init.el", and
    >> similarly for other init files.

    Colin> For those emacs users who are not computer science graduates, could
    Colin> something be included in NEWS, say a URL link, to explain *briefly* 
this
    Colin> XDG convention?

I donʼt know about brief, but thereʼs
<https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html>

Robert