* Re: [Emacs-diffs] master a4144af 1/2: Prefer ~/.config/emacs to ~/.emacs
@ 2019-09-01 8:44 Angelo Graziosi
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From: Angelo Graziosi @ 2019-09-01 8:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> XDG and its ~/.config directory is just one convention; why
> should we go after it by default, when there's no XDG setup visible
> anywhere in sight? Why should we force this convention on platforms
> other than GNU/Linux? That doesn't sound right to me.
+1
Kaushal Modi wrote:
> People were already confused about ~/.emacs and ~/.emacs.d, and now > > this third thing just complicates things more.
>
> For people preferring to maintain the Emacs config in ~/.config, they > can probably create a simple symlink to there from ~/.emacs.d
+1
BTW, do these changes attract more users?
BTW, does 'XDG' mean '_X_ Desktop Group'...
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