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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2023-07-27 09:51:39 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2023-07-30 10:23:51 +0300 |
| commit | b2cb6e821603b53b88b99b5cbf24dc715fc25867 (patch) | |
| tree | f38aadc3fe28cef69647a8919c9284d44eeba363 | |
| parent | 54e98b5f9bdd82a84fc301f1faf9a09a7326dc3f (diff) | |
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; Better documentation of HOME on MS-Windows
* doc/emacs/custom.texi (Find Init): Add footnote about HOME on
MS-Windows. (Bug#64871)
(cherry picked from commit d59630e591cd49780e6554d1025c1879bb89680b)
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/custom.texi b/doc/emacs/custom.texi index e56b1fe964c..ea29876be80 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/custom.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi @@ -2804,7 +2804,12 @@ library. @xref{Hooks}. @subsection How Emacs Finds Your Init File Emacs normally finds your init file in a location under your home -directory. @xref{Init File}. +directory@footnote{ +On MS-Windows, there's no single directory considered by all programs +as ``the home directory'' of the user. Emacs uses one of the +pertinent directories as the equivalent of your home directory; see +@ref{Windows HOME}, for the details. +}. @xref{Init File}. Emacs looks for your init file using the filenames @file{~/.emacs.el}, @file{~/.emacs}, or @file{~/.emacs.d/init.el} in that order; you can |