From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Inclusion of XDG Base Directory library Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 11:32:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <779935bf-79ea-5783-4c9c-4b7e2857bc50@gmail.com> <83o9hmnzsi.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526139028 11497 195.159.176.226 (12 May 2018 15:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 15:30:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 12 17:30:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fHWTX-0002uM-An for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2018 17:30:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52289 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHWVe-0001Ct-CP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2018 11:32:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56833) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHWVW-0001CU-QU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2018 11:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHWVT-0008PH-Ns for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2018 11:32:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38474 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHWVT-0008Oo-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2018 11:32:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fHWTJ-0002hv-Jh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2018 17:30:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:bOXtoDjvoSfcEOYapkLZlkbXKrk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225268 Archived-At: >   About Linux, the canonical way to get an XDG user folder is by the use > of the command xdg-user-dir.  The alternative is to parse > ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, something that is already done by > xdg-user-dir.  Here are two lines of mine (European Portuguese): I think it makes more sense to use the command (and just skip the whole XDG thing if it's not found). Stefan