GNU bug report logs - #18512
no startup warning if user-emacs-directory is modfied and added to load-path

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Message #37 received at 18512 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18512 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Subject: Re: bug#18512: 24.3.93;
 tramp persistency file: incompatible with old versions? Tramp won't
 start!
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:54:47 -0400

On Sep 21, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> David Reitter wrote:
> 
>> The lack of warning is not.  I pointed out what the bug is in my other
>> e-mail
> 
> user-emacs-directory is a constant. You should not have changed it.

You’re right, it’s a constant.  If you do have a constant for this, assuming that the file name is .emacs.d or similar in startup.el is obviously poor style.

I changed it because the home directory is not where applications should store files in the Mac OSX system.
Hiding the folder with a dot is helpful, because the directory does not show up in Finder.  Yet, the correct place for such files would be in ~/Library/Preferences/Emacs/.
There is a special case for Windows, perhaps because the dot-filename syntax won’t work.

There are differences in philosophy between GNU Emacs and Aquamacs Emacs.  This may be one of them.

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