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27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file

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Message #89 received at 49424 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>,
 49424 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 15:27:02 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> This is the text under discussion:
>
>        For brevity the rest of the Emacs documentation generally uses just
>     the current default location ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ for the init file.
>
> The sentence says: "the current default location ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’".
> I can't interpret this in any other way than that this is the default
> location.  This is, as we know, incorrect.

Well, it's the default default location, isn't it?

But saying "current" here is very odd -- it's probably meant as opposed
to "historical", but why should the person reading this text care?  Why
not just say

       For brevity the rest of the Emacs documentation generally uses
       ‘~/.emacs.d/init.el’ for the init file.


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