From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: user-directory: New library to find user {conf,data,state,...} files
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 18:38:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnCRScoSa+TnFVqoge=Z-pex=JHXFUQX+dMSB42a66PWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsfwnwqav.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> The only decision we need to make is whether we want a single function
>> that accepts an argument telling it the purpose of the standard
>> directory (in this case, I'd use 'PICTURES, a symbol), or maybe a
>> separate function for each kind of directory, like user-pictures-dir.
>
> I'd vote for a single defgeneric function.
I hacked something quick together and pushed it to
features/user-directory, mostly so that we can decide on the basic API.
It needs more work, but the interface should hopefully be clear.
The one I propose is:
(user-directory 'cache)
=> "/home/skangas/.cache"
(user-file 'cache "foo")
=> "/home/skangas/.cache/foo"
There's also a defcustom `user-directory-alist' for overrides:
(let ((user-directory-alist '((downloads "/foo"))))
(user-directory 'downloads))
=> "/foo"
I thought about having defuns like `user-directory-cache', which gives
us autocompletion, but I feel like the symbol approach is more
straightforward and means we can avoid code like this:
(intern (concat "user-directory-" (symbol-name sym)))
This is implemented with a defgeneric, as suggested by Stefan Monnier
(thanks!), but we could easily convert it to regular defuns if we need
to preload it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-06 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-25 13:14 master f8fed41 2/3: image-dired: Improve XDG compliance Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 16:14 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-25 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-25 17:52 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-25 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 10:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 13:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 13:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 14:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-27 4:37 ` Po Lu
2021-10-26 16:47 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-26 2:07 ` Po Lu
2021-10-25 17:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-25 17:55 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-25 17:58 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-10-25 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-26 10:25 ` Default for image-dired-main-image-directory Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 13:42 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-26 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 14:22 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 14:58 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-26 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-27 13:04 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-27 13:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-27 13:42 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-27 16:53 ` XDG config dir [Was: Re: Default for image-dired-main-image-directory] Alexandre Garreau
2021-10-28 3:45 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-10-28 3:48 ` Phil Sainty
2021-10-28 5:57 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-10-28 6:46 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 14:14 ` Default for image-dired-main-image-directory Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 14:01 ` master f8fed41 2/3: image-dired: Improve XDG compliance Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 14:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 16:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 14:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-26 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 19:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-26 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-06 1:38 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-11-06 1:52 ` user-directory: New library to find user {conf,data,state,...} files Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-06 2:56 ` user-directory: New library to find user {conf, data, state, ...} files Stefan Kangas
2021-11-06 3:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-07 19:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-07 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-08 3:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-08 12:19 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-11-08 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-08 15:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-08 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-09 7:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-09 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-09 20:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-11 10:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-08 3:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-08 15:40 ` Stefan Kangas
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