* Startup Changes in Emacs 27.1
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** Emacs now uses the XDG convention for init files.
For example, it looks for init.el in "~/.config/emacs/init.el", and
similarly for other init files.
The XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable (which defaults to "~/.config")
specifies the parent directory of these and other configuration files,
and will override their traditional locations (the home directory,
"~/.emacs.d", etc.).
Emacs will still look for init files in their traditional locations if
XDG_CONFIG_HOME does not exist, so invoking Emacs with
XDG_CONFIG_HOME='/nowhere' might be useful if your new-location init
files are scrambled, or if you want to force Emacs to ignore files
under XDG_CONFIG_HOME for some other reason.