bug#28685: 25.3; wrong handling ~/.cpp.el

[Noam Postavsky]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Hmm, actually shouldn't it be ~/.emacs.d/cpp.el rather than ~/.cpp.el?
>
> That'd be a change in behavior, although I don't mind it.

Sure, but fixing the bug to actually start using ~/.cpp.el would also
change behaviour.

> But is it really necessary, and if so, why?

My impression is that Emacs packages are generally moving dotfiles from
~/ into ~/.emacs.d/ instead.  So looking at ~/.cpp.el (which, due to the
bug, we never actually did) is by now a bit non-standard.

E.g. this entry from NEWS.24:

** More packages look for ~/.emacs.d/<foo> additionally to ~/.<foo>.
Affected files:
~/.emacs.d/timelog      replaces  ~/.timelog
~/.emacs.d/vip          replaces  ~/.vip
~/.emacs.d/viper        replaces  ~/.viper
~/.emacs.d/ido.last     replaces  ~/.ido.last
~/.emacs.d/kkcrc        replaces  ~/.kkcrc
~/.emacs.d/quickurls    replaces  ~/.quickurls
~/.emacs.d/idlwave/     replaces  ~/.idlwave/
~/.emacs.d/bdfcache.el  replaces  ~/.bdfcache.el
~/.emacs.d/places       replaces  ~/.emacs-places
~/.emacs.d/shadows      replaces  ~/.shadows
~/.emacs.d/shadow_todo  replaces  ~/.shadow_todo
~/.emacs.d/strokes      replaces  ~/.strokes
~/.emacs.d/notes        replaces  ~/.notes
~/.emacs.d/type-break   replaces  ~/.type-break
Also the following files used by the now obsolete otodo-mode.el:
~/.emacs.d/todo-do      replaces  ~/.todo-do
~/.emacs.d/todo-done    replaces  ~/.todo-done
~/.emacs.d/todo-top     replaces  ~/.todo-top