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I'm assuming that you accidentally got that statement backwards, because otherwise it doesn't make sense to me. Would you still feel like dropping things in HO
by yepguy 7y ago
I'm assuming that you accidentally got that statement backwards, because otherwise it doesn't make sense to me.
Would you still feel like dropping things in HOME was tidy if hidden files weren't a thing? You can also back up XDG_CONFIG_HOME without grabbing garbage like cache data.
- omaranto 7y agoYes, sorry I got it backwards. I don't look at my HOME directory often, I usually start from a subdirectory of HOME that has what I'm looking for. Is that why people prefer XDG_CONFIG_HOME, because they look at HOME a lot? I guess I can understand that.
- yepguy 7y agoYes, I usually start my shell sessions in $HOME. I also have shell aliases set up so I always see hidden files, and it would drive me crazy if I weren't able to tuck most config files into another directory.
- omaranto 7y agoI think Emacs has been shielding me from dotfiles. I usually start a shell in the directory of the file I'm looking at. I hardly ever see $HOME. I also have dired (Emacs' built-in file explorer) show me hidden files by default, but there aren't that many (basically just .git and .gitignore) outside of $HOME.
- jlarocco 7y ago"If hidden files didn't exist" doesn't matter because they do exist... I actually also prefer putting config files in HOME. I don't feel strongly enough to argue about it, I just prefer it.
- yepguy 7y agoI don't really like hidden files myself, but my point was more to get you to see the lack of clean hierarchy in just dumping things in $HOME.