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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, ferkiwi <at> gmail.com, 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:44:59 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:18:40 -0400
> Cc: ferkiwi <at> gmail.com, 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Although in hindsight an environment variable doesn't seem like the way
> to go.

Actually, I think it does, because otherwise the user-defined value
will be noticed too late, after defcustom's that depend on it were
already recomputed.
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