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Re:Dotfile Madness by guilherme-puida on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:10AM (#33312854)
> it would not improve my user experience for those "apps" to look for my configuration file in two different places

Some of those already do, though. At least Vim and Emacs do, and I personally have zsh in .config as well.

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Re:Dotfile Madness by kragen on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:35AM (#33312961)
Yeah, Emacs looking in both .emacs and .emacs.d has been a headache from time to time.
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Re:Dotfile Madness by guilherme-puida on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:37AM (#33312972)
Isn't .emacs.d still in your $HOME? I thought the path was $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs
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Re:Dotfile Madness by kragen on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:39AM (#33312983)
Oh, is it doing that too, now? Ugh. Three possibilities is worse than two.
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