bug#4347: Bug for .emacs.d?

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 06:25, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> There's no question that the behavior changed.  And clearly you do not
> like it.  But ... what's the harm?

IMHO, the harm is that the very existence of `user-emacs-directory'
implies that the users can change it to suit their tastes. How do you
force Emacs now to create ~/.emacs.d with another name?

> Lots of programs create a ~/.foo directory at start.

And in the best of them, there's usually a way to change both .foo's
name, and where is it created.

    Juanma