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bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#49424: 27.2; Misdocumented default initialisation file |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 15:27:02 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Kangas <stefan@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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