From 3897e004433998b0a4e0aeb968ffb13bc510d0ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Cherti <60946298+jamescherti@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 09:49:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 796e5d7..bb39a26 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Always begin your `pre-init.el`, `post-init.el`, `post-early-init.el`, and `pre- Emacs, by default, stores various configuration files, caches, backups, and other data in the `~/.emacs.d` directory. Over time, this directory can become cluttered with numerous files, making it difficult to manage and maintain. -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. +One common solution to this issue is the installation of the no-littering package, which reduces 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/pre-early-init.el`: ```