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"All OS and app configuration data in OS X and iOS are XML plist files, even GNU emacs and X11.org's preferences!" Naming correctness aside (it's X.org), can t
by nathell 12y ago
"All OS and app configuration data in OS X and iOS are XML plist files, even GNU emacs and X11.org's preferences!"
Naming correctness aside (it's X.org), can this be backed somehow? I remember using Emacs on OS X and I very much was storing my configuration in ~/.emacs.d/, the way it should be. The idea to have a unified configuration format for the entire system is glorious in theory, but with a system as heterogeneous as FreeBSD (and Linux even more so), it seems next to impossible in practice.
- danieldk 12y agoI assume he is speaking of the base system. Though I wonder how good an idea it is in practice. E.g. I cannot really imagine configuring, say mutt, via JSON, XML, or whatever. The power of such configuration files is that they are often domain-specific and allowing a custom format makes them compact. Of course, for automation or writing user-friendly interfaces, a unified format is better.