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Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-di
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Noam Postavsky |
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Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory |
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Sun, 9 Jun 2019 16:16:22 -0400 |
On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 at 15:17, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I think for simple reasons of backward compatibility, if both
> > "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/" and "~/.emacs.d/" exist, we should use
> > "~/.emacs.d/".
>
> I agree, but maybe we should also have an opt-in defcustom to prefer
> the other way around. IME, sometimes ~/.emacs.d is created due to
> some random experiments people do, which are unrelated to their
> routine operations, or due to some (buggy) packages that hard-code
> ~/.emacs.d. We should give such users a fire escape.
But where would the defcustom setting be read from? Seems like a bit
of a bootstrapping problem.
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master d68ed15: Implement and document XDG-style startup files under ~/.config., Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/02
- [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory (was: [Emacs-diffs] master d68ed15: Implement and document XDG-style startup files under ~/.config.), Amin Bandali, 2019/06/09
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory (was: [Emacs-diffs] master d68ed15: Implement and document XDG-style startup files under ~/.config.), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/09
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Stefan Monnier, 2019/06/09
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/09
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory,
Noam Postavsky <=
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/10
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Noam Postavsky, 2019/06/10
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/06/10
- Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/10
Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory (was: [Emacs-diffs] master d68ed15: Implement and document XDG-style startup files under ~/.config.), Stefan Kangas, 2019/06/13