On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 07:46:01PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > One thing I've been thinking of doing for a while is to make Texinfo > programs meet the XDG standard: > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > > The only file I'm aware of is .infokey for the info program, but there > may be others. This would mean that the file moves from '$HOME/.infokey' > to '$HOME/.config/infokey' or possibly '$HOME/.config/texinfo/infokey'. > > I feel it makes it easier when moving between different computers to > minimise the number of "dotfiles" in one's home directory and knowing > what is disposable and what should be kept. > > Does anybody have any thoughts on this?
I've done this. I made it look under a subdirectory "texinfo" rather than directly in .config as that seemed the common way of using this directory. I also implemented looking for the infokey file in XDG_CONFIG_DIRS for completeness, although it didn't seem as important as XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
