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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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: ferkiwi <at> gmail.com, 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 01:02:44 -0700

Glenn Morris wrote:
> BTW, I think the handling of user-emacs-directory is buggy:

Yes, it is. I'll have to take a look at that. I guess we'll have to change 
user-home-directory to a variable, since we can't easily determine it until 
command-line runs.

Also, a good many places in the documentaiton refer to ~/.emacs.d and these need 
to be updated.
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