From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:18:40 -0400 Message-ID: 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 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="80583"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: ferkiwi@gmail.com, 583@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 30 18:22:33 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 1i3jfV-000Kl1-LB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 18:22:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35932 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i3jfT-0007bb-G3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:22:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33265) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i3jcA-0004YD-2g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i3jc8-0001rn-0Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:19:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i3jc6-0001qE-3W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:19:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i3jc5-0000Ia-S6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:19:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:19:01 +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=B583.15671819301129 (code B ref 583); Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:19:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 583) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Aug 2019 16:18:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54767 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i3jbu-0000I8-BS for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51910) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i3jbs-0000Hu-I1 for 583@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:18:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45246) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i3jbm-0000mv-7i; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i3jbk-0004t0-Cr; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:18:40 -0400 X-Spook: National laboratory Social media mania Mantis X-Ran: UY&+lI1NC7$6"EeK*#Ra\bsQ/9t.drpN.@^=*u>.>4R'zyy{hQD:'utV{_,.-aulc28y?w X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <499f2cba-39b3-afe1-7039-fb4c3cf73ea0@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 30 Aug 2019 01:02:44 -0700") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:166102 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: >> BTW, I think the handling of user-emacs-directory is buggy: > > Yes, it is. I'll have to take a look at that. I guess we'll have to > change user-home-directory to a variable, since we can't easily > determine it until command-line runs. > > Also, a good many places in the documentaiton refer to ~/.emacs.d and > these need to be updated. IMO this means one should allow a user-defined user-emacs-directory, which means un-wontfix'ing https://debbugs.gnu.org/15539 . Maybe the patch in https://debbugs.gnu.org/15539#40 contains some useful ideas. Although in hindsight an environment variable doesn't seem like the way to go.