GNU bug report logs - #583
Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ferkiwi+a <at> gmail.com

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:05:06 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00637.html

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Message #56 received at 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: ferkiwi <at> gmail.com, 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:30:54 -0400

BTW, I think the handling of user-emacs-directory is buggy:

rm -rf /tmp/foo
mkdir -p /tmp/foo/.config/emacs
HOME=/tmp/foo emacs

Now:
user-init-file         -> /tmp/foo/.config/emacs/init
user-emacs-directory   -> ~/.emacs.d/

I guess user-emacs-directory is being set at build time, not run time.
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