Re: [Emacs-diffs] master a4144af 1/2: Prefer ~/.config/emacs to ~/.emacs.d if neither exists

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri D'Elia <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:20:38 +0200
> 
> On Fri, Aug 30 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > We never discussed such a change, and I'm not sure I personally agree
> > with it.  XDG and its ~/.config directory is just one convention; why
> > should we go after it by default, when there's no XDG setup visible
> > anywhere in sight?  Why should we force this convention on platforms
> > other than GNU/Linux?  That doesn't sound right to me.
> 
> I'd like to point out that this change also doesn't really work as
> intended.
> 
> My expectation is that if ~/.config/emacs exists, it should be preferred
> as it marks a clear indication that the user wants this path.

I think the change is not yet complete, so I can understand why it
doesn't work consistently yet.

> I'm fully ambivalent about the default if none exists.

I think we should first agree on what should happen, and only then
start implementing it.

> Since I'd really like to follow XDG, I tried to move everything to
> ~/.config/emacs, but ~/.emacs.d is still created early during startup
> anyway. This causes user-emacs-directory to be set to ~/.emacs.d. Even
> manually setting user-emacs-directory in early-init doesn't prevent the
> directory being created.

I think this is because user-emacs-directory is a defconst, see the
recent discussions of bug#583.