Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 14:59:44 -0400
> 
> I think for simple reasons of backward compatibility, if both
> "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/" and "~/.emacs.d/" exist, we should use
> "~/.emacs.d/".

I agree, but maybe we should also have an opt-in defcustom to prefer
the other way around.  IME, sometimes ~/.emacs.d is created due to
some random experiments people do, which are unrelated to their
routine operations, or due to some (buggy) packages that hard-code
~/.emacs.d.  We should give such users a fire escape.