From: Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: persistent storage for Emacs packages
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 21:19:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201310202119.19244.thomas@koch.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADkt+ZuK+ZUyX1Lhp1kPVbPK1fWNtXT7g42MQ81Ag0n7+ysAXQ@mail.gmail.com>
There is a "standard" where to place different kind of files inside a users home
directory[1], in short:
config: ~/.config/$APPNAME/
cache: ~/.cache/$APPNAME/
data: ~/.local/share/$APPNAME/
Unfortunately the standard does not yet include a place for STATE data[2].
It would be nice, if emacs would also use this "standard". This would make it
much nicer to keep the emacs config in version control without an elaborate
ignore file. Some people like me also keep their ~/.cache in a ramdisk[3].
[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/XDGBaseDirectorySpecification#state
[3] https://github.com/xtaran/unburden-home-dir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-20 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-18 16:45 persistent storage for Emacs packages Tyler Smith
2013-10-18 17:44 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-18 19:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-18 22:37 ` Josh
2013-10-18 22:49 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2013-10-18 23:00 ` Josh
[not found] ` <18713_1382137341_5261BDFD_18713_15_2_da88b78b76204dbcbbf9b5a4acbe6a0c@EXHUB2010-3.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-19 1:37 ` Tyler Smith
[not found] ` <19473_1382126090_5261920A_19473_52_3_0b1fb8bede554cb79d9303697d2056a2@EXHUB2010-3.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-18 20:01 ` Tyler Smith
2013-10-19 1:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-18 22:45 ` Karl Fogel
2013-10-18 22:48 ` Nic Ferrier
2013-11-21 16:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-11-22 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-25 13:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-11-25 16:58 ` Nic Ferrier
2013-11-25 19:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-20 19:19 ` Thomas Koch [this message]
2013-10-20 23:16 ` Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: " Glenn Morris
2013-10-21 5:07 ` Jan Djärv
2013-10-21 6:32 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-21 7:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-10-21 9:35 ` Jan Djärv
2013-10-21 12:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-21 13:31 ` John Yates
2013-10-21 15:25 ` Barry Fishman
[not found] ` <17329_1382360340_52652514_17329_164_1_1c38477173ab4b6cb80a8c50bd6dd0e9@EXHUB2010-1.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-21 13:19 ` Tyler Smith
2013-10-21 18:09 ` Josh
[not found] ` <20874_1382379012_52656E04_20874_7_7_6906997aba2b4fc2b717f1f695c0e3df@EXHUB2010-2.campus.MCGILL.CA>
2013-10-21 18:24 ` Tyler Smith
2013-10-21 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-21 20:54 ` Josh
2013-10-21 21:00 ` Glenn Morris
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