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: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:11:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="146801"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: ferkiwi+a@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu To: 583@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 28 18:12:13 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 1i30YO-000c6P-TG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 18:12:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38212 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i30YN-0001aY-Fa for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57156) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i30YF-0001aL-Ox for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i30YE-0005VK-SJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42310) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i30YE-0005VE-Ot for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i30YE-0000cV-Hz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:12:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:12:02 +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=B583.15670086922338 (code B ref 583); Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:12:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 583) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Aug 2019 16:11:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51130 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i30Xj-0000be-Vy for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48531) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i30Xg-0000bN-OR for 583@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i30Xb-0005EC-8v; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i30XZ-0003FQ-D5; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:11:21 -0400 X-Spook: Emergency Landing Crest Al-Qaeda JFK Tamil Tigers X-Ran: .b7V-VMO4u=`m`4#AZf4K4U0Ft\zI]D6)m(cb04F"3(V{}r%FwyI0~" X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:57:55 -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:166014 Archived-At: It's great to finally see some progress in this area, but IIUC this is still not really following the XDG spec. For example, I think a proper solution would see user elpa packages stored undo XDG_DATA_HOME, etc. I think the OP points this out. It looks like what we have at the moment is basically ~/.emacs.d/ -> ~/.config/emacs/?