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[PATCH] Make EWW respect XDG download directory by default

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Message #25 received at 41030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>,
 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Philip K <philip <at> warpmail.net>,
 41030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41030: [PATCH] Make EWW respect XDG download directory by
 default
Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 20:04:30 -0400

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

>> It sounds like it could be specific to your environment; have a look at
>> 'man 1 xdg-user-dirs-update'.
>
> In my use-case, I don't think I have ever touched any of this stuff.
> Not AFAIR, anyways.
>
> So I wonder if the suggested code would mean to never use
> "~/Downloads", since xdg-user-dir will always return something else?

I get nil from (xdg-user-dir "DOWNLOAD").  Looking at the code, I guess
you have something in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs which causes this.

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