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 Glossary
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The glossary explains most of the special terms we use in this documentation.
some of these are originally explained in the `Emacs manual`_ or the `Emacs Lisp
reference`_, but we reproduce them here for convenience.

.. _Emacs manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/index.html
.. _Emacs Lisp reference: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/index.html

.. glossary::

   init file
   user init file
      Your main Emacs configuration file.  It’s typically located in your
      :term:`user emacs directory` at :file:`$HOME/.emacs.d/init.el`.  Emacs
      also looks at :file:`$HOME/.emacs`, but this location is not recommended
      anymore.  To find out the actual path to your init file of your Emacs
      session inspect the value of the variable `user-init-file` with :kbd:`C-h
      v user-init-file`.  You can visit it directly with :kbd:`M-: (find-file
      user-init-file)`.

      .. seealso::

         :infonode:`(emacs)Init File`
            More information about the init file.

         :infonode:`(elisp)Init File`
            Programming interface for the init file.

   user emacs directory
      The directory for all Emacs related files of the current user, at
      :file:`~/.emacs.d/`.  Many Emacs packages create data files in this
      directory, and it holds the recommended location for the :term:`init file`
      at :file:`~/.emacs.d/init.el`.

   registered syntax checker
      A syntax checker in `flycheck-checkers`.  Flycheck will only use these
      syntax checkers when checking buffers automatically.