Subject: Re: bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file

From: Peter Oliver <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 19:22:59 +0100 (BST)

On Thu, 8 Jul 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
>>
>> We could avoid the
>> whole argument by deleting the whole sentence, since its information
>> content is low anyway.
>
> Deleting that would be a step back, since it was added for a reason,
> see the discussions about that.  Specifically, we don't want to repeat
> the whole long description of how and where does Emacs find the init
> file every time we mention the init file.

Perhaos, elsewhere in the documentation, instead of saying “~/.emacs”, we could say “the initialization file”, accompanied by a link to this description of where it can be found.

I couldn’t find the prior discussion of this, so apologies if this idea was already dismissed.

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Peter Oliver