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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: "Glenn Morris" <rgm@gnu.org>,
	Max <maxim.suraev@campus.tu-berlin.de>,
	"Mike Carifio" <carifio@carifio.org>,
	"Evgeny Roubinchtein" <zhenya1007@gmail.com>,
	"François Févotte" <francois.fevotte@ensta.org>,
	"John Wiegley" <jwiegley@gmail.com>,
	"Noam Postavsky" <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>,
	"Oleh Krehel" <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>,
	15539@debbugs.gnu.org, Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:06:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bljeereu.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb0d2b4a-c688-1098-5fc5-cecec2fb3751@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 2 Sep 2019 23:29:03 -0700")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> One might have a situation where one wants to vary (or save) files
> traditionally kept in ~/.emacs.d/, and no other files. But it's also
> quite plausible that one will want some of those files and not others,
> just as one might want ~/.config/emacs and ~/.config/fontconfig but
> not ~/.config/gtk-3.0. And it's unlikely that a single option will
> have all the fine-grained control that one would need for all these
> situations. Instead, it's probably better just to suggest to people
> that they set up $HOME (or perhaps $XDG_CONFIG_HOME) to point to a
> directory full of configurations that are just they way they like it.

So I think the conclusion to this long thread was that we don't want to
add a specific switch for this, and instead people can say
"XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/whatever emacs" when they want to change these paths.
So I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-13 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-21  6:59 bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Fernando
2012-12-08 12:18 ` bug#583: XDG basedir specification Eric Heintzmann
2012-12-08 19:06   ` Jan Djärv
2012-12-08 19:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-27 21:57 ` bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Paul Eggert
2019-08-28 16:11   ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-28 16:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-28 16:50       ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-28 17:18         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29  2:17           ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29  7:03             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-28 18:11     ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-29  2:14       ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29  6:22         ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-29  8:42           ` Štěpán Němec
2019-08-29 18:30           ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 18:35             ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 18:53             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30  8:02             ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-30 16:18               ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-30 17:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01  1:56                 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Paul Eggert
2019-09-02 23:45                   ` Glenn Morris
2019-09-03  6:29                     ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-08 14:54                       ` Mike Carifio
2020-08-13 11:06                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-09-01  2:02                 ` bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Paul Eggert
2019-09-01 14:38                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01 18:40                     ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-01 18:50                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01 23:01                         ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-31 21:51             ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-11  9:21               ` Sven Joachim
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-10-06 17:08 bug#15539: 24.3; setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation Mike Carifio
2016-02-15 10:31 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Alexis
2016-02-15 14:15   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24  4:03     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 17:15       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-25  5:48         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
     [not found] <CAADsv94GP0tVZtsS0na6RWtOc+WpDDAYDZqw299hw6j5Rq8sUw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-01 15:24 ` François Févotte
     [not found] ` <CAADsv96dEnf1aD+0=FvOHLPGXg2ARnL440Nya2ipQKRo648Dtw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-01 15:38   ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-01 15:49     ` Drew Adams
2015-04-01 16:48     ` Oleh Krehel
2015-04-01 17:16       ` François Févotte
2015-04-01 21:03         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-02  8:12           ` François Févotte

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