From 1cf068590637600984bde6b57a10150ad99454e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Cherti <60946298+jamescherti@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 14:27:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

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 README.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a041dd7..f28bc5a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ An alternative lightweight approach is to simply change the default `~/.emacs.d`
 (setq user-emacs-directory minimal-emacs-var-dir)
 ```
 
+IMPORTANT: The code above should be added to `~/.emacs.d/pre-early-init.el`, not the other files, as it modifies the behavior of all subsequent init files.
+
 ### How to prevent minimal-emacs.d from saving custom.el?
 
 To prevent Emacs from saving customization information to a custom file, set `custom-file` to `null-device` by adding to the following to `~/.emacs.d/post-init.el`: