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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2018-11-14 09:31:28 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2018-11-14 09:32:28 -0800 |
| commit | 454f7923a7de9f65f55050dfab48eefc40d0ce29 (patch) | |
| tree | 49b5bc42234e0accb94af1af8f81de5551de5f9b /doc/emacs/custom.texi | |
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Document recent change to HOME handling
* doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi (General Variables):
* doc/emacs/custom.texi (Find Init):
* doc/lispref/files.texi (File Name Expansion):
* etc/NEWS: Document behavior when HOME is a relative file name.
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/custom.texi b/doc/emacs/custom.texi index ddde5b22e6b..3dbe8f8003f 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/custom.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi @@ -2557,10 +2557,9 @@ library. @xref{Hooks}. @node Find Init @subsection How Emacs Finds Your Init File - Normally Emacs uses the environment variable @env{HOME} -(@pxref{General Variables, HOME}) to find @file{.emacs}; that's what -@samp{~} means in a file name. If @file{.emacs} is not found inside -@file{~/} (nor @file{.emacs.el}), Emacs looks for + Normally Emacs uses your home directory to find @file{~/.emacs}; +that's what @samp{~} means in a file name. @xref{General Variables, HOME}. +If neither @file{~/.emacs} nor @file{~/.emacs.el} is found, Emacs looks for @file{~/.emacs.d/init.el} (which, like @file{~/.emacs.el}, can be byte-compiled). |