Subject: bug#39132: 28.0.50; dot-emacs init-file not loaded

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:20:34 +0100

>>>>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:04:38 +0100, Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]> said:

    Andreas> Emacs seems not to know "~/.emacs" file anymore. echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
    Andreas> reports it empty.

If XDG_CONFIG_HOME is empty, then emacs defaults to
~/.config/emacs (and currently will create it, although that is soon
to change).

    Andreas> While reading in NEWS

    Andreas> Emacs will still look for init files in their traditional locations if
    Andreas> "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs" does not exist, but "~/.emacs.d" or
    Andreas> "~/.emacs" does exist, so invoking Emacs with XDG_CONFIG_HOME='/nowhere'
    Andreas> might be useful if your new-location init files are scrambled, or if
    Andreas> you want to force Emacs to ignore files under 'XDG_CONFIG_HOME' for
    Andreas> some other reason.

Does ~/.config/emacs exist?

Robert