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Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory
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tomas |
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Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory |
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Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:28:35 +0200 |
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 01:03:51AM -0400, Amin Bandali wrote:
> Richard Stallman writes:
>
> > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
> >
> > > Would it not be better to follow the freedesktop spec?
> > >
> > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
> >
> > Concretely, what change would that mean in Emacs?
>
> In short, the approach that I proposed divides up `user-emacs-directory'
> into multiple subdirectories and keeps `user-emacs-directory' as the
> all-in-one source of a user's Emacs files, while the XDG Base Directory
> approach as suggested by Gunnar would imply keeping only configuration
> files in `user-emacs-directory', and moving data and cache files to
> "$XDG_DATA_HOME/emacs/" and "$XDG_CACHE_HOME/emacs/" respectively, where
> 'XDG_DATA_HOME' defaults to "~/.local/share" and 'XDG_CACHE_HOME' to
> "~/.cache".
I've now read the freedesktop thing. If you ask me: please make that
optional. I have none of those $XDG_* env vars set, and I have nothing
of relevance in .local.
Cheers
- t
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- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory (was: A cache directory?), Richard Stallman, 2020/08/18
- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory, Gunnar Horrigmo, 2020/08/18
- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory, Gunnar Horrigmo, 2020/08/18
- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory, Richard Stallman, 2020/08/19
- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory, Amin Bandali, 2020/08/19
- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory,
tomas <=
- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory, Amin Bandali, 2020/08/19
- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory, tomas, 2020/08/19
- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory, noah swainland, 2020/08/19
- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory, David De La Harpe Golden, 2020/08/19
- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory, tomas, 2020/08/19
- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory, Yuan Fu, 2020/08/19
- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory, Stefan Monnier, 2020/08/19
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- Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory, Stefan Monnier, 2020/08/19
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