From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master a4144af 1/2: Prefer ~/.config/emacs to ~/.emacs.d if neither exists
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 16:56:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lfv886i6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvlfv8i37s.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 01 Sep 2019 09:05:09 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 09:05:09 -0400
>
> Basically the argument is "if the user consciously chose to use the
> weird XDG setup, then let's obey those wishes".
That's exactly my view on this issue. We cannot assume the user
prefers the XDG conventions without at least some indication to that
effect, not after using .emacs.d for so many years. It would violate
the principle of the least astonishment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-01 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-30 12:34 [Emacs-diffs] master a4144af 1/2: Prefer ~/.config/emacs to ~/.emacs.d if neither exists Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 14:20 ` Yuri D'Elia
2019-08-30 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-01 6:25 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-01 13:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-01 13:44 ` Teemu Likonen
2019-09-01 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-09-02 19:03 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] <20190830072451.9819.83340@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20190830072452.ACB48210EC@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-08-30 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-30 15:20 ` Kaushal Modi
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