From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 22:26:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83lfy99r8q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190525172356.30070.65317@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190525172357.86D4F207F5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <835zpnv1o4.fsf@gnu.org> <87lfybw8cd.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> <83d0jmbmcs.fsf@gnu.org> <8336khbeas.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="84866"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, npostavs@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 10 21:26:24 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1haPw0-000Lxp-FA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:26:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49162 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1haPvz-00074x-2X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:26:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54597) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1haPvu-00074q-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:26:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57033) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1haPvu-0004kk-1Q; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:26:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1229 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1haPvs-00014K-4x; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:26:17 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:21:25 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:237422 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Monnier , Emacs developers > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:21:25 +0200 > > Noam Postavsky writes: > > > Would it be okay to only use ~/.emacs.d as user-emacs-directory if > > ~/.emacs.d/init.el exists? > > I've got an ~/.emacs.d directory where all the different Emacs packages > store their data, but I don't have an ~/.emacs.d/init.el. Instead I > have an ~/.emacs, and that's probably not an unusual configuration... This is in fact identical to what I have here. So maybe Stefan is right and we should unconditionally prefer ~/.emacs and ~/.emacs.d to the XDG stuff, if the former exist.