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bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Jul 2021 10:40:39 +0200 |
>>>>> On Thu, 08 Jul 2021 09:23:27 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 22:51:43 +0100 (BST)
>> From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>
>> cc: rpluim@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, 49424@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > The info page “49.4.4 How Emacs Finds Your Init File” says:
>> >
>> > > For brevity the rest of the Emacs documentation generally uses just
>> > > the current default location ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ for the init file.
>> >
>> > However, this seems to be inaccurate: if I start Emacs as a new user
>> > and make a customisation, that customisation is written to ~/.emacs.
>> >
>> > How can a simplifying convention in a manual be "inaccurate"? And
>> > what does that convention have to do with the order and logic of how
>> > Emacs actually looks for the init file?
>>
>> I understand the sentence to be making two assertions:
>>
>> 1. Throughout the documentation, “~/.emacs.d/init.el” will be used
>> as a shorthand for “the initialisation file”, whatever filename that
>> happens to have.
>> 2. The default location of the initialisation file is
“~/.emacs.d/init.el”.
>>
>> Neither is true.
Eli> The 2nd one is not what that sentence says.
Eli> If the 1st one is incorrect, it should be fixed to reflect the truth.
Eli> But that has nothing to do with the rest of this discussion, which is
Eli> about the actual method and order Emacs uses to find the init file(s).
FWIW I agree with Peter's interpretation here. We could avoid the
whole argument by deleting the whole sentence, since its information
content is low anyway.
Robert
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- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, (continued)
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Peter Oliver, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Peter Oliver, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Peter Oliver, 2021/07/07
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/08
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file,
Robert Pluim <=
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/08
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Peter Oliver, 2021/07/08
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/08