On Nov 23, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 11/23/14 5:54 AM, Xie Yuheng wrote: >> we should add ".bash/" along with ".bashrc" as the default init dir. >> this will make things more flexible, and will not break any existed code. >> to be "default" is important, people who right simple makefile can use >> this, only when it is "default". > > Is this of general enough use to add? There are Linux distributions > that have added shell code similar to what Piotr posted to add this > functionality. I don't think there's enough reason to make the change. I hate the number of dotfiles that exist in $HOME - not bash's (well, bash's too), but every freaking application that does it. I hate not knowing what app installed the dotfiles. I hate that when I go to see what dotfiles exist for $APP, I see all the dotfiles for all the apps without know which ones belong with which. My preference would be that the search order for any bash dotfiles are ~/.bash/file, then ~/.file. It's backwards-compatible, and for those of us who have $HOME in a single filesystem across many machines, a symbolic or hard links from ~/.bashdotfile -> ~/.bash/foodotfile.
