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Eli Zaretskii |
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emacs-27 a18373a: ; * etc/NEWS: Update the text about the XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs behavior. |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Jan 2020 12:41:32 -0500 (EST) |
branch: emacs-27
commit a18373a999dcb5603e27900394dbd7e1fc139fe0
Author: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
; * etc/NEWS: Update the text about the XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs behavior.
---
etc/NEWS | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index a8c8e27..6eb5d38 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -164,10 +164,15 @@ and will override their traditional locations (the home
directory,
"~/.emacs.d", etc.).
Emacs will still look for init files in their traditional locations if
-XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs does not exist, so invoking Emacs with
-XDG_CONFIG_HOME='/nowhere' might be useful if your new-location init
-files are scrambled, or if you want to force Emacs to ignore files
-under XDG_CONFIG_HOME for some other reason.
+XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs does not exist, but ~/.emacs.d or ~/.emacs does
+exist, so invoking Emacs with XDG_CONFIG_HOME='/nowhere' might be
+useful if your new-location init files are scrambled, or if you want
+to force Emacs to ignore files under XDG_CONFIG_HOME for some other
+reason.
+
+If neither XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs nor ~/.emacs.d exist, Emacs will now
+default to XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs, and will create that directory and
+set 'user-emacs-directory' to point to it.
+++
** Emacs can now be configured using an early init file.
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