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@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ One common solution to this issue is the installation of the no-littering packag
 
 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-var-dir
-      (expand-file-name "var/" minimal-emacs-user-directory))
+;; Reducing clutter in ~/.emacs.d by redirecting files to ~/emacs.d/var/
+(setq minimal-emacs-var-dir (expand-file-name "var/" minimal-emacs-user-directory))
 (setq package-user-dir (expand-file-name "elpa/" minimal-emacs-var-dir))
 (setq user-emacs-directory minimal-emacs-var-dir)
 ```