From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 583@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 11:40:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18032aff-fdaa-256e-3bf5-a9603c9d28e2@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ftlg84kv.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> We should document what that "very early" means in practice. Does it
> mean in the early-init file? or can this be done reliably in the
> normal init file as well?
Sorry, I don't know. That's why I didn't document it.
> The problem here is that some defcustom's refer to
> user-emacs-directory, and so changing the value of
> user-emacs-directory after those defcustoms were computed during
> startup will leave those defcustoms pointing at the old place.
Yes, it's quite a mess.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-01 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-21 6:59 bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Fernando
2012-12-08 12:18 ` bug#583: XDG basedir specification Eric Heintzmann
2012-12-08 19:06 ` Jan Djärv
2012-12-08 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-27 21:57 ` bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Paul Eggert
2019-08-28 16:11 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-28 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-28 16:50 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-28 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29 2:17 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-28 18:11 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-29 2:14 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 6:22 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-29 8:42 ` Štěpán Němec
2019-08-29 18:30 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 18:35 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-29 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 8:02 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-30 16:18 ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-30 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01 1:56 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Paul Eggert
2019-09-02 23:45 ` Glenn Morris
2019-09-03 6:29 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-08 14:54 ` Mike Carifio
2020-08-13 11:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-01 2:02 ` bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Paul Eggert
2019-09-01 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01 18:40 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2019-09-01 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01 23:01 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-31 21:51 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-11 9:21 ` Sven Joachim
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