On 22/12/2022 22:45, Tim Cross wrote:
Could some of the issues people are concerned about regarding use of
/tmp be avoided if instead the temporary files were put into ~/.cache?
There is no ~/.cache on Windows, the fallback is ~/.emacs.d. org-persist
files in ~/.emacs.d was the original source of complains. Moreover, I do
not think emacs -q should write to the same places as emacs initialized
in the regular way.
I see a couple of options:
- Remove the directory on exit (taking some care to not prevent quit in
the cases of errors)
- Create the directory lazily. The variable should not be accessed
directly, when some code is going to write a file it should call a
function that creates the directory if it is first call.
Another idea is to avoid caching of parse result for small files.
