From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: horrigmo@runbox.no, casouri@gmail.com, bandali@gnu.org,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 11:15:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwveenxwg96.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1k8xnt-0004S7-8V@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 20 Aug 2020 23:33:21 -0400")
> The doc string of ecomplete-database-file suggests that the file is
> really a kind of cache. Is that so?
Not exactly, it's more like a history (of email addresses we've bumped into).
> Would deleting the file be harmless?
It doesn't contain data the user painstakingly created, but deleting it
would cause the suggested completions to be much less useful for a while.
So it's somewhat like a cache, except that a cache is expected to affect
only the performance but not the actual behavior.
> I have a feeling that recentf-save-file is also a cache file. Is that so?
Same: it's a history (of files we visited).
> We should take care to distinguish which files are cache files
> and put them into ~/.cache.
Agreed. I think package.el's `archive-contents` file do qualify as
caches, as do the <pkg>-readme.txt files.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-23 15:15 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
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 [this message]
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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