Re: please conform to the xdg base directory specification

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On 17 August 2013 05:20, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> This is the second "please conform to XDG" thread in the last few months
> (last time was users/17726).  I mention this because ...
>
> On Aug 15,  7:54pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> }
> } Adding yet more complexity to the initialisation file logic doesn't seem
> } a great idea, but one thing that could keep everything more or less
> } under control would be to make ZDOTDIR a colon-separated array (and make
> } zdotdir an array).
>
> ... this suggestion, while fine on its own, does not solve the problem of
> bootstrapping the value of ZDOTDIR, so zsh would still not "conform to
> XDG."  Unless someone *else* has a good use for a multi-element ZDOTDIR
> path, there's no benefit in going down this road.
>
> Unless of course you're proposing a default of zdotdir=(~/.zsh ~) rather
> than the current default of unset, a change that has its own set of
> potential gotchas.
>
> } We'd need to decide on the rule for multiple directories: use the first
> } found, use the first containing initialisation files, use the first file
> } of each type found by searching through the path...
>
> I'd prefer "use the first found" so that dotfiles could be disabled by
> creating an empty directory.  I don't think "first file found of each
> type" is a wise idea, the files in a particular directory are likely to
> be related and not necessarily meant to work with files found elsewhere.
> "First directory containing" would be OK, but means scanning for all the
> files as soon as any of them is needed.

I have my dotfiles in ~/.zsh, but .zshrc linked to ~ so I can edit it
easily (I tend to do that a lot), so parsing both by default would be
bad for me.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson