Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory

[T.V Raman]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:


also auto-insert-directory could profit fromusing
locate-user-emacs-file
> Yuan Fu [2020-08-20 10:56:28] wrote:
>
>>> On Aug 19, 2020, at 11:09 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> 
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>>>> In short, the approach that I proposed divides up `user-emacs-directory'
>>>> into multiple subdirectories and keeps `user-emacs-directory' as the
>>>> all-in-one source of a user's Emacs files, while the XDG Base Directory
>>>> approach as suggested by Gunnar would imply keeping only configuration
>>>> files in `user-emacs-directory', and moving data and cache files to
>>>> "$XDG_DATA_HOME/emacs/" and "$XDG_CACHE_HOME/emacs/" respectively, where
>>>> 'XDG_DATA_HOME' defaults to "~/.local/share" and 'XDG_CACHE_HOME' to
>>>> "~/.cache".
>>> 
>>> There is a benefit to putting all cache files in ~/.cache.  For
>>> instance, you know where to find all the files you can safely delete,
>>> regardless of which program made them.
>>> 
>>> What concretely are "data" files, for Emacs?  I don't know where in
>>> the sources to look for that info.  Can you mention a few examples and
>>> what data they contain?  With specifics, we can see the concrete
>>> advantage of one choice or the other.  With only the abstraction "data
>>> files", we can see only at the level of abstractions, and that is a sort
>>> of blindness that can lead to bad decisions.
>>> 
>>
>> I don??t know about the concrete definition, but some built-in examples 
>> includes:
>>
>> recentf-save-file
>> bookmark-default-file
>> savehist-file
>> project-list-file
>
> ecomplete-database-file
>
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>         Stefan
>
>

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