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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2020-01-07 19:41:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2020-01-07 19:41:02 +0200 |
| commit | a18373a999dcb5603e27900394dbd7e1fc139fe0 (patch) | |
| tree | 69e77238455e9af6ee266c2cd8d48a10df97f93e /etc | |
| parent | 73fd8a4b535928990f24702cdfaeeeceb6d33d3d (diff) | |
| download | emacs-a18373a999dcb5603e27900394dbd7e1fc139fe0.tar.gz | |
; * etc/NEWS: Update the text about the XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs behavior.
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| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -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. |