Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
That is, indeed, convention. No need to presume we'll stay on one file. > 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. That's good. That way, the sysadmins can set up defaults. Thanks for doing this. Have a lovely night. -- Arsen Arsenović
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