From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory (was: A cache directory?)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:06:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1k7ssv-0003IU-Iy@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rk6uzbv.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Amin Bandali on Sun, 16 Aug 2020 16:10:12 -0400)
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> If we were to tackle this in Emacs itself, maybe we could have two
> defcustoms `user-config-directory' and `user-data-directory', defaulting
> to "etc/" and "var/" in `user-emacs-directory'. If a lot of packages
> use temporary/cache files, having a third `user-cache-directory' that
> defaults to "var/cache/" in `user-emacs-directory' would make sense.
LGTM.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-18 4:06 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 [this message]
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
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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