Variable: user-emacs-directory

user-emacs-directory is a variable defined in subr.el.gz.

Value

"~/.emacs.d/"

Documentation

Directory beneath which additional per-user Emacs-specific files are placed.

Various programs in Emacs store information in this directory. Note that this should end with a directory separator. See also locate-user-emacs-file.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 23.1.

Aliases

erc-user-emacs-directory (obsolete since 28.1)

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/subr.el.gz
(defvar user-emacs-directory
  ;; The value does not matter since Emacs sets this at startup.
  nil
  "Directory beneath which additional per-user Emacs-specific files are placed.
Various programs in Emacs store information in this directory.
Note that this should end with a directory separator.
See also `locate-user-emacs-file'.")