From 19e5503333ee2585a93ea9b935f286ae7bcf7f38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Cherti <60946298+jamescherti@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 09:43:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

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 README.md | 7 ++++---
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -116,11 +116,12 @@ Emacs, by default, stores various configuration files, caches, backups, and othe
 
 One common solution to this issue is the installation of the no-littering package, which reorganizes these files into a more structured format, reducing the clutter in the `~/.emacs.d` directory.
 
-However, an alternative lightweight approach is to simply change the default `~/.emacs.d` directory to `~/.emacs.d/var/`, which will contain all the files that Emacs typically stores in the base directory. This can be accomplished by adding the following code to `~/.emacs.d/post-early-init.el`:
+However, an alternative lightweight approach is to simply change the default `~/.emacs.d` directory to `~/.emacs.d/var/`, which will contain all the files that Emacs typically stores in the base directory. This can be accomplished by adding the following code to `~/.emacs.d/pre-early-init.el`:
 ```
 (setq minimal-emacs-user-directory user-emacs-directory)
-(setq minimal-emacs-var-dir (expand-file-name "var/" minimal-emacs-user-directory))
-(setq user-emacs-directory minimal-emacs-var-dir)
+(setq minimal-emacs-var-dir
+      (expand-file-name "var/" minimal-emacs-user-directory))
+(setq user-emacs-directory minimal-emacs-var-dir) 
 ```
 
 ### How to activate recentf, savehist, saveplace, and auto-revert?