Subject: Re: bug#46056: hardcoded ~/.emacs.d in elpa package excorporate

From: Gunnar Horrigmo <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 03:45:17 +0100

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Right.  CCing Thomas, the package's maintainer.

Thank you.

> Rather than concatenating file names as strings, better to use
> locate-user-emacs-file in this case (or expand-file-name in general).
> See (info "(elisp) Standard File Names").

Good advice! 

> Ideally the patch would include a ChangeLog-style commit message
> referencing this bug number; see the guidelines in the CONTRIBUTE
> file[1] at the top of the Emacs source tree.  Otherwise looks fine :).
>
> [1]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/CONTRIBUTE

Not that Thomas needs my help, but just for my own excercise, is this
what you prefer?

Subject: [PATCH] Use `locate-user-emacs-file' instead of hardcoded paths to
 diary files

---
 excorporate-diary.el | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/excorporate-diary.el b/excorporate-diary.el
index 833df3017c..d936f6494c 100644
--- a/excorporate-diary.el
+++ b/excorporate-diary.el
@@ -76,13 +76,13 @@ respectively."
              #'exco-diary-icalendar--add-diary-entry-around))
 
 (defvar excorporate-diary-today-file
-  "~/.emacs.d/excorporate/diary-excorporate-today"
+  (locate-user-emacs-file "excorporate/diary-excorporate-today")
   "The diary file where Excorporate should save today's meetings.
 This file will be #include'd in `diary-file' by
 `excorporate-diary-enable'.")
 
 (defvar excorporate-diary-transient-file
-  "~/.emacs.d/excorporate/diary-excorporate-transient"
+  (locate-user-emacs-file "excorporate/diary-excorporate-transient")
   "The diary file where Excorporate should save retrieved meetings.
 This file will be #include'd in `diary-file' by
 `excorporate-diary-enable'.")
-- 
2.30.0

-- 
Gunnar