Is there a reason to use ".emacs" instead of ".emacs.d"?

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Is there a reason to use ".emacs" instead of ".emacs.d"? #30

Closed alienbogart closed 3 years ago

alienbogart commented 4 years ago

I'm really just curious if there's any advantage in doing so.

plexus commented 4 years ago

The idea is that you install chemacs in .emacs so you can have your own default config in .emacs.d.

emacs18 commented 3 years ago

Also I think emacs looks for and uses one these files in this order:

~/.emacs.el
~/.emacs
~/.emacs.d/init.el

If chemacs used ~/.emacs.d/init.el instead, then what would happen if user accidentally created ~/.emacs? By using ~/.emacs which is higher in priority, I think it increases the chance of chemacs working as intended in more situations.