Re: [PATCH] Fixing package-initialize, adding early init file

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Btw, is it only looked up in .emacs.d, or also in the directory where
>>> .emacs is searched (which could be just the home directory)?
>> No, since .emacs is deprecated in favor of ~/.emacs.d/init.el.
> Huh?  Deprecation does not mean desupport.
> Emacs still supports ~/.emacs, AFAIK.

He just means that he didn't find it necessary to provide a ~/.<foo>
alternative to the ~/.emacs,.d/early-init.el file.

FWIW I completely agree that it doesn't seem to be worthwhile to add
support for an alternate ~/.<foo> name: it would only make sense to do
that in order to provide backward compatibility with a preexisting such
~/.<foo>, but in this case there's no such preexisting file.


        Stefan