From a18373a999dcb5603e27900394dbd7e1fc139fe0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 19:41:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ; * etc/NEWS: Update the text about the XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs behavior. --- etc/NEWS | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index a8c8e2763e4..6eb5d3811a0 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -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. -- 2.39.2