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: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 20:26:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83woh0cppu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-9dzXKgVRzuZKwUwpVNmS-Qa2sHoWch2NdB=mqoGGQPQw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Tue, 2 Jul 2019 12:55:21 -0400)
> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 12:55:21 -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...
>
> Perhaps we could revisit Bug#15539 which allows setting
> user-emacs-directory via EMACS_USER_DIRECTORY environment variable? It
> was marked as wontfix, mainly (as far as I can tell) based on the
> potential bugs that letting user-emacs-directory be different than
> $HOME/.emacs.d could bring, but it looks like we've basically decided
> that is acceptable here anyway.
Maybe use an environment variable only to override the default
preference order between XDG and ~/.emacs.d, i.e. as that "fire
escape" I had in mind?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-02 17:26 UTC|newest]
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[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
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 [this message]
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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