From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement XDG Base Directory specification for user-emacs-directory Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:55:26 -0400 Message-ID: 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="224619"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: Stefan Monnier , Emacs developers To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 10 20:56:21 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 1haPSu-000wJR-BG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:56:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1haPSt-0007iN-0X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:56:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47724) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1haPSf-0007gF-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:56:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1haPSe-0003H7-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:56:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ot1-x343.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::343]:34219) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1haPSU-0002qc-Ib; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ot1-x343.google.com with SMTP id z24so9358708oto.1; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:55:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=Eq3H9jvGfLPuGDN1Q0AO/adoUqKANrG34odw6A4VvKc=; b=COFPPHOYkgdOproeFJI2UQvw5PjQNa9JSKZw5ssfIeucM3zuLYSRy3og5EAd+Sz4Cg CsNaCXlTFfpGf0W8fXMdKEFXsovnpp40hKc5fMOYcDA9VbMkAY/x6tZo9bqPNLVZVsER 8KleLtFJ/P3Yp+0ZpxUkNtVMWlY3QNWP3/LZjMWunoLoz48PYTCgwOuR/v2fufqrJjj/ qaHwF+JNY0k9wjmIvcROWZH96ExejV4gEK0sW+WHGWMbjHmTMlKyRKbZs8wb0y1/L9cE xsm8O4qsVC/hACFbxfAfWuqb5DSUB4BFuE+xN+goyt3m2cdC9ZwF7HdHoTsPRdBb7gyh t9qw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=Eq3H9jvGfLPuGDN1Q0AO/adoUqKANrG34odw6A4VvKc=; b=jF1fGttTtkL50ZFzPATHGJNKV2zFU/XdF0OyBo2XV8IdI9csmTbj0QuFNDIaOJvKRn FyQ30yNHc/MqeHTCkliud53k0GY5mWXsFCAoiCZ68tRMBco2WBR2HcgzX5+ek/2H0Lk+ jUmNXcS3q8LbR9zfOQExVhe5qwgQ6xe8mlEPGvapKK2KJhgOHLhCIS50E4rMq0zBXmae ngFRlv4VHkJ/U4Y4HDc0tfzhndAhSjRvb95X4PFeh/Cp1ye7385XS/eUSbcgNfdA8phn i2i2R2wv2DypS7zXkDQ2QX558AfIIf8ZKDD51GhJDip2q5YW526KUiGqwMF81sXdL+WS fI5g== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVK2slSAslacDrfVjjcXJ7iMzkBbJ0jXRaW31rB4dbYCGTGFNqp ZTDsvyS442iKwTRn6JzlPvf663JoE1HYt6vpGSjnpWal X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqx6aPbWyLI7/lmMn8SDALRhRx1pWvvvM2sG7Ws5cFaooCaOUDqBP+XnY1fQE8Je6XGfAYTZicDm3I6kT67pqkU= X-Received: by 2002:a9d:6007:: with SMTP id h7mr29581673otj.368.1560192942510; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:55:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8336khbeas.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::343 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:237419 Archived-At: On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 12:22, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> 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. >> >> 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... Would it be okay to only use ~/.emacs.d as user-emacs-directory if ~/.emacs.d/init.el exists?