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I don't know what xdg is. Can you provide a link? Is it a better technical solution than what editorconfig has set out to do? I think that you were just being
by cakeface 11y ago
I don't know what xdg is. Can you provide a link? Is it a better technical solution than what editorconfig has set out to do?
I think that you were just being snarky, but if there is a competing standard that is actually something I'd like to hear about.
- fakeanon 11y agohttp://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-l... It lets users specify their config directory.
- jessaustin 11y agoBut since no one does that, the result is that everyone has half of their config files in $HOME, and the other half in $HOME/.config.
- ossreality 11y ago/shrug yeah because people like EditorConfig and Atom write new projects and literally opt to ignore the standard. It's just frustrating, annoying and a bit arrogant. "Oh just fucking throw it in their home dir. They won't mind. No one shows dot-prefixed files, right?!" Uh.