Re: [Nano-devel] proposal to add support for the XDG base directory spec

[Brand Huntsman]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 21:25:17 +0200
Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> On second thought: nano shouldn't put those files in a single dir,
> because it might give the user the impression that filepos_history
> and search_history are config files too, and are meant to be edited.
> They aren't.  So they should probably go into $XDG_CACHE_HOME, right?

Binary config files aren't meant to be edited by the user either, doesn't mean 
they should go in cache. Anything in cache is likely to not get backed up as it 
can easily be recreated by re-downloading or re-generating. Many users might 
want nano's history files to be backed up.