On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:04:38 +0100, Andreas Röhler
<andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> said:
Andreas> Emacs seems not to know "~/.emacs" file anymore. echo
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME
Andreas> reports it empty.
If XDG_CONFIG_HOME is empty, then emacs defaults to
~/.config/emacs (and currently will create it, although that is soon
to change).
Andreas> While reading in NEWS
Andreas> Emacs will still look for init files in their traditional
locations if
Andreas> "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs" does not exist, but "~/.emacs.d" or
Andreas> "~/.emacs" does exist, so invoking Emacs with
XDG_CONFIG_HOME='/nowhere'
Andreas> might be useful if your new-location init files are scrambled, or
if
Andreas> you want to force Emacs to ignore files under 'XDG_CONFIG_HOME'
for
Andreas> some other reason.
Does ~/.config/emacs exist?
Robert