From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:02:01 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <60afe0b9-f637-c3ec-34bc-9cfa2b544947@cs.ucla.edu> References: <09f0b6af-213f-cc04-336b-00850ba0f3bf@cs.ucla.edu> <8ad91615-e621-7a10-72e2-03277676bd3a@cs.ucla.edu> <499f2cba-39b3-afe1-7039-fb4c3cf73ea0@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="44896"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 Cc: 583@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 01 04:03:21 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i4FD7-000BYl-1A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 04:03:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47070 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i4FD5-00031h-66 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 22:03:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i4FCp-0002zj-SY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 22:03:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i4FCo-000619-Pt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 22:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47291) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i4FCo-00060u-NC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 22:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i4FCo-0003xp-HE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 22:03:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 02:03:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 583 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 583-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B583.156730332915151 (code B ref 583); Sun, 01 Sep 2019 02:03:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 583) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Sep 2019 02:02:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56112 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i4FBx-0003wJ-H2 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 22:02:09 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:48610) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i4FBw-0003w8-Dg for 583@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 22:02:08 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 007FF1600A3; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id AfoHGFTbneY3; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABEA1600AE; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:02:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id x8eSTTXlr6Q5; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E46671600A3; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:02:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:166129 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > IMO this means one should allow a user-defined user-emacs-directory, > which means un-wontfix'ing https://debbugs.gnu.org/15539 . Thanks for mentioning that. I followed up in that bug report, here: https://bugs.gnu.org/15539#109 By the way, making user-emacs-directory a variable instead of a constant has its downsides, because if a user changes user-emacs-directory, then a lot of other variables will keep their old values derived from the previous value of user-emacs-directory, leading to a confusing mish-mosh of old and new behavior. Changing user-emacs-directory works coherently only if it's done very early in startup (which is all that Bug#15539 was asking for).