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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254009 Archived-At: --adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 09:59:41AM -0400, Amin Bandali wrote: [...] > Reading this, another con of the XDG Base Directory approach just > occurred to me: >=20 > As of now, the XDG support added in Emacs 27 for the location of > `user-emacs-directory' is completely optional: if "~/.emacs.d/" exists, > "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/" won't be used at all. And some people seem to > quite dislike the XDG approach. So, basing this change upon that, users > who choose not to use "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/" will inevitably be opted > out of this cleaning up of their Emacs directory. I'd personally like > to have my `user-emacs-directory' be clean, even if I choose to use > "~/.emacs.d/" and not "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/". So, another reason for > me to prefer my original proposal of diving `user-emacs-directory' up > into subdirectories, regardless of whether or not the user uses > "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/". >=20 > Thoughts? That would work for me. I actually structure my ~/.emacs.d anyway, and could live well with another structuring. Cheers - t --adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAl89NJ8ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYG7QCeOKTSDxHzDkL9/erSrqelNGZy oioAnRD+ra9UN00NYfe6gvwFizyq99vH =ALQ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j--