Re: Default emacs init file location confusion

[Greg Farough]

On Tue, Jan 07 2020, Yuan Fu <address@hidden> wrote:

>> I expect that it would/will bite any old timer who moves to a new
>> machine and happens to run `emacs` before installing his config
>> (e.g. because he needs to edit a config file in order to fetch his
>> Emacs config).
>
> That happened to me when I installed Emacs on a remote server some
> time ago. I found out the problem when I vaguely remembered that XDG
> discussion after trying to debug my config for quite while.
>
> Yuan

This also happened to me when setting up a new laptop. It took quite a
while for me to figure out.

-g