;;; XDG Base Directory Specification paths for emacs. ;;; ;;; ;;; Copyright ©2011 Francisco Miguel Colaço
;;; All rights reserved. ;;; ;;; This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ;;; modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public ;;; License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either ;;; version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ;;; ;;; This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU ;;; Lesser General Public License for more details. ;;; ;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public ;;; License along with this library; if not, write to the ;;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;;; ;;; ;;; Commentary: ;;; ;;; This package sets the directory according to the XDG Base ;;; Directory Specification. The directories are given by the ;;; environment variables, falling back to the defaults enumerated ;;; in the standard. ;;; ;;; The $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR was not contemplated here, since we found ;;; no practical use for it. ;;; ;;; The defaults (or generated values) are: ;;; ;;; Symbol Default ;;; user-emacs-data-directory ~/.local/share/emacs/ ;;; user-emacs-config-directory ~/.config/emacs/ ;;; user-emacs-cache-directory ~/.cache/emacs/ ;;; user-emacs-lisp-directory `user-emacs-data-directory`/lisp ;;; user-documents-directory ~/Documents ;;; ;;; Some convenience functions are defined to locate files in these ;;; directories and to add user lisp to load-path. ;;; ;;; Some advantages are: ;;; ;;; Installation: ;;; ;;; 1. put xdg-paths in your own path. ;;; 2. Start your .emacs with (load-library 'xdg-paths) or, ;;; write (load-library 'xdg-paths) in site-start.el ;;; ;;; Use cases: ;;; ;;; In my .emacs, I simply load a configuration hub file within ;;; user-emacs-config-directory with: ;;; ;;; (load (locate-user-config-file "conf-init")) ;;; ;;; Within conf-init.el file, all other files are loaded with: ;;; ;;; (dolist (module (list ;;; "edit" "frame" "programming" "tex" "xml" ;;; (concat "emacs-version-" (int-to-string emacs-major-version)) ;;; (concat "window-system-" (symbol-name window-system)) ;;; (concat "system-type-" (subst-char-in-string ?/ ?- (symbol-name system-type))) ;;; (concat "host-" (system-name)))) ;;; (load (locate-user-config-file (concat "conf-" module)) t)) ;;; ;;; Adding to path from the user library just becomes: ;;; ;;; (add-user-lisp-to-path "yasnippet") ;;; ;;; The user documents directory can be made the initial buffer in case ;;; no command line arguments are passed in: ;;; ;;; (if (eql (length command-line-args) 1) ;;; ;; No files were passed in the command line. ;;; (setq initial-buffer-choice user-documents-directory)) ;;; ;;; ;;; Caveat Emptor: ;;; ;;; Variable setting and directory initialization were not properly tested. ;;; I have never tested setting previously the directories because the ;;; default results are satisfactory. ;;; ;;; ;;; History: ;;; ;;; 0.1: Francisco Miguel Colaço ;;; Directory variables; ;;; Functions to locate files; ;;; add-to-path and add-user-lisp-to-path; ;;; xdg-user-dir (depends on xdg-user-dir existing). ;;; ;;; ;;; Future work: ;;; ;;; 1. Make better docstrings (I may have assumed too much). ;;; 3. Add customize support. ;;; 3. Add more functions to cover the full standard. ;;; 4. Add more convenience functions (as needed by others). ;;; 5. Refactor the initialization of the variables. ;;; 6. Make it within the default emacs distribution. ;;; ;;; Directories definition. (defvar user-emacs-config-directory nil "The directory where the emacs user configuration files are stored at.") (defvar user-emacs-data-directory nil "The directory where the emacs user data and lisp files are stored at. \\[user-emacs-directory] is set to this directory.") (defvar user-emacs-cache-directory nil "The directory where the emacs user expendable files are stored at. Files stored here should not be missed when deleted, apart a temporary loss in speed.") (defvar user-emacs-lisp-directory nil "The directory where the user lisp packages are stored at. This directory is added to \\[load-path].") (defvar user-documents-directory nil "The directory where the user stores his documents.") (defun xdg-user-dir (dirname) "Given NAME, run 'xdg-user-dir NAME' and return the result in a string. If the command fails, return NIL." (let ((command (concat "xdg-user-dir " dirname))) (if (eq (shell-command command) 0) (substring (shell-command-to-string command) 0 -1) nil))) (if (zerop ())) (defun locate-user-file (filename &optional type) "Given a file, locate it in the user files. If TYPE is NIL or 'data, the file will be located in user-emacs-data-directory. If 'config, it will be located in user-emacs-config-directory. If 'cache, it will be located in user-emacs-cache-directory. If 'lisp, it will be located in user-emacs-lisp-directory. If 'documents, it will be located in user-documents-directory. If the category is wrong, an error will be signaled. " (expand-file-name filename (case type ((nil 'data) user-emacs-data-directory) ('config user-emacs-config-directory) ('lisp user-emacs-lisp-directory) ('cache user-emacs-cache-directory) ('documents user-documents-directory) (t (error "The category %s is not valid" type))))) (defun locate-user-config-file (filename) "Given a file, locate it in `user-emacs-config-directory`." (locate-user-file filename 'config)) (defun locate-user-lisp (filename) "Given a file, locate it in `user-emacs-lisp-directory`." (locate-user-file filename 'lisp)) (defun add-to-path (directory &optional append) "Given DIRECTORY, it it exists and is indeed a directory, add it to `load-path`." (interactive "D") (if (file-directory-p directory) (add-to-list 'load-path directory append) (error "The directory \"%s\" does not exist or isn't a directory." directory))) (defun add-user-lisp-to-path (directory &optional append) "Given DIRECTORY, it it exists and is indeed a directory, add it to `load-path`." (interactive "D") (add-to-path (locate-user-lisp directory) append)) ;; Determine the different paths for the user's directories. (labels ((getdir (variable fallback) )) (setq user-emacs-config-directory (getdir "XDG_CONFIG_HOME" "~/.config/") user-emacs-data-directory (getdir "XDG_DATA_HOME" "~/.local/share/") user-emacs-cache-directory (getdir "XDG_CACHE_HOME" "~/.cache/"))) ;; Set the default variables if they have no name. (macrolet ((setq-if-null (variable value) `(if (null ,variable) (setf ,variable ,value))) (getdir (variable fallback) `(expand-file-name "emacs/" (or (getenv ,variable) ,fallback)))) (setq-if-null user-emacs-config-directory (getdir "XDG_CONFIG_HOME" "~/.config/")) (setq-if-null user-emacs-data-directory (getdir "XDG_DATA_HOME" "~/.local/share/")) (setq-if-null user-emacs-cache-directory (getdir "XDG_CACHE_HOME" "~/.cache/")) (setq-if-null user-emacs-lisp-directory (expand-file-name "lisp" user-emacs-data-directory)) (setf-if-null user-documents-directory (or (xdg-user-dir "DOCUMENTS") "~/Documents"))) ;; Set the user-emacs-directory to user-emacs-data-directory. (setf user-emacs-directory user-emacs-data-directory) ;; Add the user lisp directory to path. (add-to-list 'load-path user-emacs-lisp-directory) (provide 'xdg-paths)