From: Gunnar Horrigmo <horrigmo@runbox.no>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 09:57:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iv4v9hgxu6l.fsf@hot-rats.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rk6uzbv.fsf@gnu.org> (Amin Bandali's message of "Sun, 16 Aug 2020 16:10:12 -0400")
Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:
> Of the packages that aim to do this, I liked the approach of the
> "no-littering" package like the most. Essentially, it designates two
> directories, one for config files and another for persistent data files,
> defaulting to "etc/" and "var/" under the `user-emacs-directory'
> respectively. It then changes the directory/file location settings for
> many packages, dividing up each package's files into one of the two
> general categories. If a package stores multiple files of the same
> category, no-littering creates a directory under that category with the
> package name to keep those files together.
>
> 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'.
Would it not be better to follow the freedesktop spec?
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
--
Gunnar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-18 7:57 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
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 [this message]
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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