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Help keeping ~/.config/emacs clean
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Any thought for adding XDG compliance? #171

Closed duckwork closed 2 years ago

duckwork commented 2 years ago

This would be a little more involved that simply setting no-littering-etc-directory to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs, and no-littering-var-directory to $XDG_DATA_HOME/emacs, because there's also some cache files that would need to go somewhere in $XDG_CACHE_HOME.

Plus, where would the files in ~/.config/emacs/ go? In ~/.config/emacs/etc/ ?

Anyway I think this is worth considering but it is kind of tricky.

Should it be another package altogether?

tarsius commented 2 years ago

Changes are being made to Emacs. See messages after (and maybe before) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-10/msg01879.html. no-littering was mentioned. I think this goes into the right direction but some persistence will be necessary to go beyond a 80% solution. I do not have the motivation to do that now but I am confident to get around to it before the feature freeze for Emacs 29.1. Forgive me for not outlying my thoughts on the matter now; I plan to do that eventually, just not now.

duckwork commented 2 years ago

No worries! I just had the thought --- I thought it'd be non-trivial. I mean, no-littering's line count attests to that!

Anyway, I'll monitor the mailing list for more information here; thanks for the information!

Also, do feel free to ping me if you need any assistance in this area.