Glossary¶
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.
- init file
user init file Your main Emacs configuration file. It’s typically located in your user emacs directory at
$HOME/.emacs.d/init.el
. Emacs also looks at$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 variableuser-init-file
withC-h v user-init-file
. You can visit it directly withM-: (find-file user-init-file)
.See also
- Init File(emacs)
- More information about the init file.
- Init File(elisp)
- Programming interface for the init file.
- user emacs directory
- The directory for all Emacs related files of the current user, at
~/.emacs.d/
. Many Emacs packages create data files in this directory, and it holds the recommended location for the init file at~/.emacs.d/init.el
. - registered syntax checker
- A syntax checker in
flycheck-checkers
. Flycheck will only use these syntax checkers when checking buffers automatically.