** Emacs can now use the XDG convention for init files.
The 'XDG_CONFIG_HOME' environment variable (which defaults to
"~/.config") specifies the XDG configuration parent directory.  Emacs
checks for "init.el" and other configuration files inside the "emacs"
subdirectory of 'XDG_CONFIG_HOME', i.e. "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/init.el"

However, Emacs will still initially look for init files in their
traditional locations if "~/.emacs.d" or "~/.emacs" exist, even if
"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs" also exists.  This means that you must delete
or rename any existing "~/.emacs.d" and "~/.emacs" to enable use of
the XDG directory.

If "~/.emacs.d" does not exist, and Emacs has decided to use it
(i.e. "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs" does not exist), Emacs will create it.
Emacs will never create "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs".

Whichever directory Emacs decides to use, it will set
'user-emacs-directory' to point to it.
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