From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:18:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200819141807.GC12640@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wo1uivn6.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 09:59:41AM -0400, Amin Bandali wrote:
[...]
> Reading this, another con of the XDG Base Directory approach just
> occurred to me:
>
> As of now, the XDG support added in Emacs 27 for the location of
> `user-emacs-directory' is completely optional: if "~/.emacs.d/" exists,
> "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/" won't be used at all. And some people seem to
> quite dislike the XDG approach. So, basing this change upon that, users
> who choose not to use "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/" will inevitably be opted
> out of this cleaning up of their Emacs directory. I'd personally like
> to have my `user-emacs-directory' be clean, even if I choose to use
> "~/.emacs.d/" and not "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/". So, another reason for
> me to prefer my original proposal of diving `user-emacs-directory' up
> into subdirectories, regardless of whether or not the user uses
> "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/".
>
> Thoughts?
That would work for me. I actually structure my ~/.emacs.d anyway, and
could live well with another structuring.
Cheers
- t
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-19 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-16 19:30 A cache directory? Yuan Fu
2020-08-16 19:45 ` Yuri Khan
2020-08-16 20:43 ` Yuan Fu
2020-08-16 20:10 ` Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory (was: A cache directory?) Amin Bandali
2020-08-18 4:06 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-18 7:51 ` Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory Gunnar Horrigmo
2020-08-18 22:41 ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-18 7:57 ` Gunnar Horrigmo
2020-08-19 4:01 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-19 5:03 ` Amin Bandali
2020-08-19 8:28 ` tomas
2020-08-19 13:59 ` Amin Bandali
2020-08-19 14:18 ` tomas [this message]
2020-08-19 14:47 ` noah swainland
2020-08-19 14:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2020-08-19 16:14 ` tomas
2020-08-19 16:47 ` Yuan Fu
2020-08-19 17:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-19 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-20 3:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-20 7:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-08-20 11:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-19 13:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-19 14:15 ` tomas
2020-08-20 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-20 14:56 ` Yuan Fu
2020-08-20 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-20 17:14 ` T.V Raman
2020-08-21 3:33 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-23 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-23 16:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-23 19:02 ` John Yates
2020-08-24 3:22 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-21 9:49 ` Gunnar Horrigmo
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