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* bug#15539: 24.3; setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation
@ 2013-10-06 17:08 Mike Carifio
  2015-03-13 15:01 ` bug#15539: Setting " François Févotte
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 28+ messages in thread
From: Mike Carifio @ 2013-10-06 17:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 15539


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I'd like a switch for the emacs command line, something like
--user-emacs-directory, that sets the user emacs directory on startup,
rather than hardcodes ~/.emacs.d/. So, for example:

  emacs --user-emacs-directory ~/mine.d/

Will look for the emacs init.el in ~/mine.d/init.el.

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In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4)
 of 2013-10-03 on louvi, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11303000
System Description:	Ubuntu 13.04

Configured using:
 `configure '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu'
 '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
 '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
 '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
 '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
 '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes'
 '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars'
 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector
 --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall'
 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro'
 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  global-auto-complete-mode: t
  auto-complete-mode: t
  cua-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> C-h v c o m m a n d l <backspace> - l i 
n e - a r g <tab> <return> ESC x r e p o r t - e m 
<tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...done
Loading debian-ispell...done
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-docutils.el (source)...done
Loading /home/mcarifio/.emacs.d/lib/libemacs.el (source)...done
(lambda (a b) ...) quoted with ' rather than with #'
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
command-line-1: Unknown option `--user-emacs-directory'
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp/cmake-data/cmake-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cmake-mode
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell hides /usr/share/emacs/24.3/lisp/textmodes/flyspell
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/rst hides /usr/share/emacs/24.3/lisp/textmodes/rst
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell hides /usr/share/emacs/24.3/lisp/textmodes/ispell
/home/mcarifio/.emacs.d/elpa/flymake-0.4.13/flymake hides /usr/share/emacs/24.3/lisp/progmodes/flymake
/home/mcarifio/.emacs.d/elpa/sunrise-commander-20121024.2042/.dir-locals hides /usr/share/emacs/24.3/lisp/gnus/.dir-locals

Features:
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minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties
overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk
x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)





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* bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?
@ 2008-07-21  6:59 Fernando
  2019-08-27 21:57 ` Paul Eggert
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread
From: Fernando @ 2008-07-21  6:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bug-gnu-emacs

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The XDG Base Directory
Specification<http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/>provides
some common paths in user's home to store personal application
configurations, or, using their own words "*defines where these files should
be looked for by defining one or more base directories relative to which
files should be located*".

XDG Base Directory Specification allows efficient backup, in which you can
easily choose to backup your data and/or your configuration files for
instance. An application could easily propose such backup for the whole
system if all applications were matching these specification.

Therefore, although I think that this bug/enhancement is not vital, it would
be great for Emacs to be "FreeDesktop XDG Base Directory Specification"
compliant.

Currently Emacs is using "$HOME/.emacs.d/". This is what XDG basedir spec
defines:

   - $XDG_DATA_HOME (usually $HOME/.local/share/) as "*the base directory
   relative to which user specific data files should be stored*"
   - $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (usually $HOME/.config/) as "*the base directory
   relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored*"
   - $XDG_CACHE_HOME (usually $HOME/.cache/) as "*the base directory
   relative to which user specific non-essential data files should be stored
   *"

(http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html)

In order to make Emacs XDG basedir compliant, I think that it would be nice
to use:

   - $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs  ;;for "init.el" and storing customize
   configuration


   - $XDG_DATA_HOME/emacs  ;;for sessions and backups


   - $XDG_CACHE_HOME/emacs  ;;for cache files

Or maybe some other distribution. What do you think about it?

There's a small C library that may be useful check it out, written for the
sole purpose of xdg basedir spec compliance:
https://n.ethz.ch/student/nevillm/download/libxdg-basedir/

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2013-10-06 17:08 bug#15539: 24.3; setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation Mike Carifio
2015-03-13 15:01 ` bug#15539: Setting " François Févotte
2015-03-16  0:36   ` Glenn Morris
2015-03-16  7:28     ` François Févotte
2015-03-17 10:08     ` François Févotte
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
2016-11-03 22:32 ` bug#15539: comment Max
2016-11-04  7:28   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-04 12:42     ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2016-11-04 12:55       ` Noam Postavsky
2016-11-04 13:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-14 18:43         ` Glenn Morris
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2015-04-01 15:24 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory 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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2008-07-21  6:59 bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Fernando
2019-08-27 21:57 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-28 16:11   ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-28 18:11     ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-29  2:14       ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29  6:22         ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-29 18:30           ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-30  8:02             ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-30 16:18               ` Glenn Morris
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

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