From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:06:33 +0200 Message-ID: <87bljeereu.fsf@gnus.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> <1154ad53-058c-53fa-3f4d-7026a6ec5b2b@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35571"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Glenn Morris , Max , Mike Carifio , Evgeny Roubinchtein , =?UTF-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois_?= =?UTF-8?Q?F=C3=A9votte?= , John Wiegley , Noam Postavsky , Oleh Krehel , 15539@debbugs.gnu.org, Alexis To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 13 13:07:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k6B4g-0009A7-P9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:07:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54020 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k6B4f-0000Fo-RW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:07:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57730) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k6B4Y-0000F8-Rk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35598) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k6B4Y-0002ch-Ia for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k6B4Y-0006f1-Eb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:07:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:07:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15539 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 15539-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15539.159731681125575 (code B ref 15539); Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:07:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15539) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Aug 2020 11:06:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47141 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k6B4N-0006eQ-9K for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:56414) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k6B4L-0006eD-LU for 15539@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:06:50 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=NNUgCIuThvvEL7jplVorV6lx8HeUKHY0ZLDbRQlarGI=; b=CQ1NSCAPL46yv/WvmkWKpXP8ZU b9aRi3cdnLOMjhPzKGy4xBMRrmfcAvGZCGXv78ek6ZerbFQAXLdeZtScabp1Ezr49yoUp3Tce3ilI 2q7viQpU8Yp++iNA+mdjQ5GO35lQp/EyPWkA3XRv5JRY9ilsgUhe9PDlW8EPLEzIH4FU=; Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=xo) by quimby with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k6B48-0005LG-3W; Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:06:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 2 Sep 2019 23:29:03 -0700") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:185001 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > One might have a situation where one wants to vary (or save) files > traditionally kept in ~/.emacs.d/, and no other files. But it's also > quite plausible that one will want some of those files and not others, > just as one might want ~/.config/emacs and ~/.config/fontconfig but > not ~/.config/gtk-3.0. And it's unlikely that a single option will > have all the fine-grained control that one would need for all these > situations. Instead, it's probably better just to suggest to people > that they set up $HOME (or perhaps $XDG_CONFIG_HOME) to point to a > directory full of configurations that are just they way they like it. So I think the conclusion to this long thread was that we don't want to add a specific switch for this, and instead people can say "XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/whatever emacs" when they want to change these paths. So I'm closing this bug report. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no