[vim/vim] Feedback and question about xdg.vim (Issue #19514)
Diego Viola
diegoviola created an issue (vim/vim#19514)I noticed that xdg.vim was added after the discussion in #19421.
It seems the approach is to have a way for users to do :ru xdg.vim and have the XDG paths set for them automatically, fair enough.
I see a couple of problems with this. First, the file says:
" These options are not set by default because they change the behavior of
" where files are saved. Uncomment them if you want to fully move all
" transient/persistent files to XDG directories.
Now let's consider that $VIMRUNTIME isn't always writable by the user, they might not have root access. Furthermore, making changes to files in /usr isn't good practice because an update can overwrite them.
Users would have to make the change in their ~/.config/vim/vimrc anyway. With this in mind, the xdg.vim feels redundant.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a better approach would have been to provide instructions for setting such paths rather than providing xdg.vim.
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Vinfall
Vinfall left a comment (vim/vim#19514)From previous discussion I concluded the defaults might never be changed. With this in mind, add source $VIMRUNTIME/xdg.vim to my vimrc sounds elegant enough.
A similar approach would be exporting something like VIM_XDG=1 in .profile or at runtime, but to me that's basically the same. You get a cleaner home directory in exchange of polluting either your environment variable or your vimrc.
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