Re: Poll: is ~/.emacs auto-migration worthwhile? Or too dangerous?
Rodney Sparapani writes:
However, if we all just say no, then there is no help there, right?
Maybe this does need to be rethought. There was a time when all
XEmacs users had .emacs. Today, people who start by installing XEmacs
will get .xemacs/init.el by default. People who are just trying
XEmacs probably don't want .emacs moved (although GNU Emacs 22.1 has a
similar scheme, under the name .emacs.d I believe).
Migration has not happened often enough for me to get a good idea
of what I should be doing and maybe others are similarly confused.
You probably want to stick to .emacs until you've moved to a GNU Emacs
that prefers .emacs.d or whatever it's called, or conversely you get a
native Mac XEmacs that you consider satisfactory for your daily work,
and aren't going to need an Emacs again.
It's possible that maybe people who use both Emacs and XEmacs are the
main case where XEmacs will encounter a .emacs that's left these days.
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