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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 11:40:21 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> We should document what that "very early" means in practice.  Does it
> mean in the early-init file? or can this be done reliably in the
> normal init file as well?

Sorry, I don't know. That's why I didn't document it.

> The problem here is that some defcustom's refer to
> user-emacs-directory, and so changing the value of
> user-emacs-directory after those defcustoms were computed during
> startup will leave those defcustoms pointing at the old place.

Yes, it's quite a mess.
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