Stefan Monnier [2019-09-01T09:05:09-04] wrote:

> BTW, ~/.config/emacs/init.el seems to be an exception in the XDG space
> because in my experience all those ~/.config files are normally
> expected to be manipulated via GUI options, rather than by editing
> them directly.

It seems to me that GUI programs and desktop environments adopted the
XDG Base Directory Specification first. However, nowadays there are also
a command-line and other programs which use ~/.config (or
XDG_CONFIG_HOME) for their (hand-edited) configuration files. Examples I
remember are git, mpv (a media player), i3 (a window manager) and ASDF
(Common Lisp's system definition and configuration framework).

About the topic: I like to see Emacs going towards XDG directories.

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