[PATCH 1/2] cli: looking for config file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
sh!zeeg
shizeeque at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 05:43:20 PDT 2018
According to XDG Base Directory Specification
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
configuration files should be stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME which
defaulted to $HOME/.config/
---
notmuch-config.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/notmuch-config.c b/notmuch-config.c
index e1b16609..7651c912 100644
--- a/notmuch-config.c
+++ b/notmuch-config.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ out:
/* Open the named notmuch configuration file. If the filename is NULL,
* the value of the environment variable $NOTMUCH_CONFIG will be used.
* If $NOTMUCH_CONFIG is unset, the default configuration file
- * ($HOME/.notmuch-config) will be used.
+ * ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME/notmuch/config) will be used.
*
* If any error occurs, (out of memory, or a permission-denied error,
* etc.), this function will print a message to stderr and return
@@ -358,8 +358,10 @@ notmuch_config_open (void *ctx,
config->filename = talloc_strdup (config, filename);
} else if ((notmuch_config_env = getenv ("NOTMUCH_CONFIG"))) {
config->filename = talloc_strdup (config, notmuch_config_env);
+ } else if ((notmuch_config_env = getenv ("XDG_CONFIG_HOME"))) {
+ config->filename = talloc_strdup (config, notmuch_config_env);
} else {
- config->filename = talloc_asprintf (config, "%s/.notmuch-config",
+ config->filename = talloc_asprintf (config, "%s/.config/notmuch/config",
getenv ("HOME"));
}
--
2.16.2
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