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2024-08-12 09:43:21 -04:00
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@@ -116,10 +116,11 @@ Emacs, by default, stores various configuration files, caches, backups, and othe
One common solution to this issue is the installation of the no-littering package, which reorganizes these files into a more structured format, reducing the clutter in the `~/.emacs.d` directory.
However, an alternative lightweight approach is to simply change the default `~/.emacs.d` directory to `~/.emacs.d/var/`, which will contain all the files that Emacs typically stores in the base directory. This can be accomplished by adding the following code to `~/.emacs.d/post-early-init.el`:
However, an alternative lightweight approach is to simply change the default `~/.emacs.d` directory to `~/.emacs.d/var/`, which will contain all the files that Emacs typically stores in the base directory. This can be accomplished by adding the following code to `~/.emacs.d/pre-early-init.el`:
```
(setq minimal-emacs-user-directory user-emacs-directory)
(setq minimal-emacs-var-dir (expand-file-name "var/" minimal-emacs-user-directory))
(setq minimal-emacs-var-dir
(expand-file-name "var/" minimal-emacs-user-directory))
(setq user-emacs-directory minimal-emacs-var-dir)
```