From d2f0f98400c397eff17ef9c2916d1854a7a6e7cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Cherti <60946298+jamescherti@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 21:52:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e45d02f..b841ce8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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) ```