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27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 47790 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47790: 27.2; XDG_DATA_HOME evaluation in move-file-to-trash
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:37:20 +0200

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Is this a valid setting of an environment variable?

Probably not in emacs with setenv, but in a .profile or .bash_profile,
maybe, at least according to
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
but is is up to you to decide if it is right or not to create a $HOME
directory which is a copy of the $HOME directory in the back of the user
each time he trashes a file with such setting (I added a warning in helm
documentation years ago about this).

-- 
Thierry

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