On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 06:54:14PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > Could we consider ignoring the XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS part > of the specification? (It seems that XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME > are the part that people really care about.) > > We could try discussing with developers of other GNU packages what > they do about these variables, and how the XDG specification works > with the GNU Coding Standards and existing practice. >
Emacs appears only to check XDG_CONFIG_HOME and not XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, according to https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Find-Init.html: > Emacs can also look in an XDG-compatible location for init.el, the > default is the directory ~/.config/emacs. This can be overridden by > setting XDG_CONFIG_HOME in your environment, its value replaces ~/.config > in the name of the default XDG init file. However ~/.emacs.d, ~/.emacs, > and ~/.emacs.el are always preferred if they exist, which means that > you must delete or rename them in order to use the XDG location. No mention of XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. "XDG-compatible" is a nice turn of phrase, slightly different to "XDG-compliant".
