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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master a4144af 1/2: Prefer ~/.config/emacs to ~/.emacs
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Yuri D'Elia |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master a4144af 1/2: Prefer ~/.config/emacs to ~/.emacs.d if neither exists |
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Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:20:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, Aug 30 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> We never discussed such a change, and I'm not sure I personally agree
> with it. XDG and its ~/.config directory is just one convention; why
> should we go after it by default, when there's no XDG setup visible
> anywhere in sight? Why should we force this convention on platforms
> other than GNU/Linux? That doesn't sound right to me.
I'd like to point out that this change also doesn't really work as
intended.
My expectation is that if ~/.config/emacs exists, it should be preferred
as it marks a clear indication that the user wants this path.
I'm fully ambivalent about the default if none exists.
Since I'd really like to follow XDG, I tried to move everything to
~/.config/emacs, but ~/.emacs.d is still created early during startup
anyway. This causes user-emacs-directory to be set to ~/.emacs.d. Even
manually setting user-emacs-directory in early-init doesn't prevent the
directory being created.