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master e708da62270 1/2: ; Better documentation of HOME on MS-Windows
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Eli Zaretskii |
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master e708da62270 1/2: ; Better documentation of HOME on MS-Windows |
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Thu, 27 Jul 2023 03:00:55 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: master
commit e708da62270d311d6bceac0dcbdf4740112156ed
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
; Better documentation of HOME on MS-Windows
* doc/emacs/custom.texi (Find Init): Add footnote about HOME on
MS-Windows. (Bug#64871)
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doc/emacs/custom.texi | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/emacs/custom.texi b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
index d2d51e344dd..456e2087217 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/custom.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi
@@ -2823,7 +2823,12 @@ library. @xref{Hooks}.
@subsection How Emacs Finds Your Init File
Emacs normally finds your init file in a location under your home
-directory. @xref{Init File}.
+directory@footnote{
+On MS-Windows, there's no single directory considered by all programs
+as ``the home directory'' of the user. Emacs uses one of the
+pertinent directories as the equivalent of your home directory; see
+@ref{Windows HOME}, for the details.
+}. @xref{Init File}.
Emacs looks for your init file using the filenames @file{~/.emacs.el},
@file{~/.emacs}, or @file{~/.emacs.d/init.el} in that order; you can
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