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

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: Re: bug#583: Use XDG basedir spec for configuration files?
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 16:01:29 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Yes, it's quite a mess.
> If doing this in early-init works, I'd rather we documented that as
> the canonical place that saves users from the mess.

I doubt whether it even works in early-init. Not that I've tested it; I don't 
use early-init and would not be a good person to delve deeper into that part of 
the mess.
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