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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: xdg-directories.el
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 12:46:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmvjj4q5z.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83inu7aeo5.fsf@gnu.org

>> I have seen once again the source code for xdg-user-dir, and there is no
>> environment variables until one runs
>> ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs (or the file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME).

Oh, right.  It looks like a shell is unavoidable, indeed.  So we might
as well run xdg-user-dir instead of re-implementing it (but let's do it
via call-process rather than shell-command*).

> If the script is only run to find the PICTURES and DOCUMENTS
> directories, then at least on Windows those could be found by
> alternative means that don't use any scripts.  (We don't currently
> have a Lisp-visible API for that, but it'd be easy to add.)

Should we use XDG under Windows?
[my gut feeling is "hell, no", but I really have no idea. ]


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-07 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-06 15:24 xdg-directories.el francisco.colaco
2016-09-06 21:49 ` xdg-directories.el Noam Postavsky
2016-09-06 22:37   ` xdg-directories.el francisco.colaco
2016-09-07  0:35     ` xdg-directories.el Stefan Monnier
2016-09-07 14:18 ` xdg-directories.el Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-07 14:59   ` xdg-directories.el francisco.colaco
2016-09-07 15:21     ` xdg-directories.el Stefan Monnier
2016-09-07 15:31     ` xdg-directories.el francisco.colaco
2016-09-07 15:54       ` xdg-directories.el Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-07 16:13         ` xdg-directories.el francisco.colaco
2016-09-07 16:28           ` xdg-directories.el francisco.colaco
2016-09-07 17:32           ` xdg-directories.el Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]             ` <CACwYkzyjV2jsTX3Cb0Us4tz1WsUP=avurw04Kgq8k52oBZRg_Q@mail.gmail.com>
2016-09-07 18:21               ` xdg-directories.el Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-07 16:46         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-09-07 17:24           ` xdg-directories.el Eli Zaretskii

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