FINALLY! :wq
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
For fans of the Vim text editor, the latest development code has landed support for the XDG Base Directory "XDG_BASE_DIR" specification.
Rather than just dumping all configuration files / cache / data into the home directory folder, Vim can now respect the XDG Base Directory specification with regards to the directories such as for the XDG cache, configuration files, persistent data files, and state data files.
Vim will continue to work fine for environments not setting the XDG paths / environment variables.
The XDG_BASE_DIR support was merged this week after being under review and discussion since last month.
This closes a 7 year old bug report requesting Vim follow XDG_CONFIG_HOME specifications or the APPDATA path on Windows.
The original article contains 117 words, the summary contains 117 words. Saved 0%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
This is pretty verbatim.
The bot says it 'saved 0%'; so at least it's honest.
It'll be a cold day in hell before I give up my ~/.vimrc
Now get the stupid ssh clients to do the same.
Holy moly great news. There's hope for our /home after all. I think Firefox has an open bug thread or request thread for XDG Base Directory that's like ..20 years old?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356
20 indeed
I use this script with librewolf, give it a try, simply place it in $HOME/.local/bin name it librewolf and export that location as first in $PATH:
#!/bin/sh
APPHOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME/librewolf/HOME"
APPEXEC="$HOME/.local/opt/librewolf/librewolf" # Replace this with the path to librewolf
# XDG Check
if [ -z "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" ] || [ -z "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] || [ -z "$XDG_DATA_HOME" ] || [ -z "$XDG_STATE_HOME" ]; then
echo "One or more XDG Base dir variables not defined, bailing out"; exit 1
fi
# MAKE FAKEHOME AND LINKS
mkdir -p "$APPHOME/.local" "$XDG_DATA_HOME/pki" "$XDG_DATA_HOME/icons" 2>/dev/null
[ ! -e "$APPHOME/.local/share" ] && ln -s "$XDG_DATA_HOME" "$APPHOME/.local/share"
[ ! -e "$APPHOME/.local/state" ] && ln -s "$XDG_STATE_HOME" "$APPHOME/.local/state"
[ ! -e "$APPHOME/.config" ] && ln -s "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" "$APPHOME/.config"
[ ! -e "$APPHOME/.cache" ] && ln -s "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" "$APPHOME/.cache"
[ ! -e "$APPHOME/.icons" ] && ln -s "$XDG_DATA_HOME/icons" "$APPHOME/.icons" # Some apps have hardcoded ~/.icons path
[ ! -e "$APPHOME/.pki" ] && ln -s "$XDG_DATA_HOME/pki" "$APPHOME/.pki" # Chromium/electron hardcode ~/.pki
find "$APPHOME" -xtype l -delete
for FILES in "$HOME"/*; do
FILENAME=$(basename "$FILES")
DEST="$APPHOME/$FILENAME"
if [ ! -e "$DEST" ]; then
ln -s "$FILES" "$DEST"
fi
done
# START APP AT APPHOME
HOME="$APPHOME" "$APPEXEC" "$@" || notify-send "App not found"
RIP Bram