From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files? Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 21:50:09 +0300 Message-ID: <8336hf97ha.fsf@gnu.org> References: <09f0b6af-213f-cc04-336b-00850ba0f3bf@cs.ucla.edu> <8ad91615-e621-7a10-72e2-03277676bd3a@cs.ucla.edu> <499f2cba-39b3-afe1-7039-fb4c3cf73ea0@cs.ucla.edu> <60afe0b9-f637-c3ec-34bc-9cfa2b544947@cs.ucla.edu> <83ftlg84kv.fsf@gnu.org> <18032aff-fdaa-256e-3bf5-a9603c9d28e2@cs.ucla.edu> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="234094"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 583@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 01 20:51:21 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1i4UwY-000yhu-J5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 20:51:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59772 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i4UwX-0002v2-GJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 14:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45113) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i4UwQ-0002ut-Oe for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 14:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i4UwK-0000IQ-VR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 14:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:48419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i4UwI-0000Fj-1O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 14:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i4UwH-00022B-U6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 14:51:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 18:51:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 583 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 583-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B583.15673638307773 (code B ref 583); Sun, 01 Sep 2019 18:51:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 583) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Sep 2019 18:50:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57240 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i4Uvl-00021J-Qw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 14:50:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36532) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i4Uvj-000216-JN for 583@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 14:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50997) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i4Uvd-0008Bs-VA; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 14:50:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4193 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i4Uvc-0005pd-QS; Sun, 01 Sep 2019 14:50:21 -0400 In-reply-to: <18032aff-fdaa-256e-3bf5-a9603c9d28e2@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sun, 1 Sep 2019 11:40:21 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:166151 Archived-At: > Cc: rgm@gnu.org, 583@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 11:40:21 -0700 > > 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. If doing this in early-init works, I'd rather we documented that as the canonical place that saves users from the mess.