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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,  Emacs 
> developers <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:21:25 +0200
> 
> Noam Postavsky <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Would it be okay to only use ~/.emacs.d as user-emacs-directory if
> > ~/.emacs.d/init.el exists?
> 
> I've got an ~/.emacs.d directory where all the different Emacs packages
> store their data, but I don't have an ~/.emacs.d/init.el.  Instead I
> have an ~/.emacs, and that's probably not an unusual configuration...

This is in fact identical to what I have here.

So maybe Stefan is right and we should unconditionally prefer ~/.emacs
and ~/.emacs.d to the XDG stuff, if the former exist.