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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:22:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8336khbeas.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-8K=vm07+Hdkp_6qYnQ7LrZx5R+V_0JeY7a8C_10tmA4w@mail.gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Sun, 9 Jun 2019 16:16:22 -0400)

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 16:16:22 -0400
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > I agree, but maybe we should also have an opt-in defcustom to prefer
> > the other way around.  IME, sometimes ~/.emacs.d is created due to
> > some random experiments people do, which are unrelated to their
> > routine operations, or due to some (buggy) packages that hard-code
> > ~/.emacs.d.  We should give such users a fire escape.
> 
> But where would the defcustom setting be read from? Seems like a bit
> of a bootstrapping problem.

You are right, but then I think this feature will be an endless
source of confusion and bug reports.  Sigh...




  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-10 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190525172356.30070.65317@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20190525172357.86D4F207F5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-05-26 22:40   ` [Emacs-diffs] master d68ed15: Implement and document XDG-style startup files under ~/.config Stefan Monnier
2019-06-03  2:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09  7:01       ` [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory (was: [Emacs-diffs] master d68ed15: Implement and document XDG-style startup files under ~/.config.) Amin Bandali
2019-06-09  8:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09 18:59         ` [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory Stefan Monnier
2019-06-09 19:16           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09 20:16             ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-10 16:22               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-06-10 18:55                 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-10 19:21                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-10 19:26                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-02 16:55                 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-02 17:26                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-23 14:36                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-27  2:58                       ` Amin Bandali
2019-07-27  7:55                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-27 18:46                           ` Paul Eggert
2019-07-27 21:22                             ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-28 14:41                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-28 15:21                                 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-28 16:34                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-28 14:48                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29  1:00                               ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-07-29  2:36                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29  4:24                                   ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-07-29 14:21                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-25  8:46                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-27 21:50                                 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-28  5:59                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-13 11:34         ` [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory (was: [Emacs-diffs] master d68ed15: Implement and document XDG-style startup files under ~/.config.) Stefan Kangas

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