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bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 07:10:19 -0700 |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> This is the text under discussion:
>>
>> For brevity the rest of the Emacs documentation generally uses just
>> the current default location ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ for the init file.
>>
>> The sentence says: "the current default location ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’".
>> I can't interpret this in any other way than that this is the default
>> location. This is, as we know, incorrect.
>
> Well, it's the default default location, isn't it?
The default is ".emacs.el", if this text from (info "(emacs) Find Init")
is correct:
Emacs looks for your init file using the filenames ‘~/.emacs.el’,
‘~/.emacs’, or ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ in that order; you can choose
to use any one of these names. [...] Emacs can also look in an
XDG-compatible location for ‘init.el’, the default is the directory
‘~/.config/emacs’.
> But saying "current" here is very odd -- it's probably meant as opposed
> to "historical", but why should the person reading this text care? Why
> not just say
>
> For brevity the rest of the Emacs documentation generally uses
> ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ for the init file.
I guess because that's not the convention we actually use. :-)
We say ".emacs" everywhere. AFAICT, the only place we even mention
"~/.emacs.d/init.el" in the manual is this node (!).
That's why I proposed to change "current" to "historical", but the word
"traditional" is also good IMO.
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/24
- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/24
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- bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/24
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