Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory

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Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory

From: T.V Raman

Subject: Re: Cleaning up and structuring user-emacs-directory

Date: 2020年8月20日 10:14:49 -0700

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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
also auto-insert-directory could profit fromusing
locate-user-emacs-file
> Yuan Fu [2020年08月20日 10:56:28] wrote:
>
>>> On Aug 19, 2020, at 11:09 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
>>> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
>>> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>>> 
>>>> 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
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
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