According to XDG Base Directory Specification https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html configuration files should be stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME which defaulted to $HOME/.config/ --- notmuch-config.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/notmuch-config.c b/notmuch-config.c index e1b16609..7651c912 100644 --- a/notmuch-config.c +++ b/notmuch-config.c @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ out: /* Open the named notmuch configuration file. If the filename is NULL, * the value of the environment variable $NOTMUCH_CONFIG will be used. * If $NOTMUCH_CONFIG is unset, the default configuration file - * ($HOME/.notmuch-config) will be used. + * ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME/notmuch/config) will be used. * * If any error occurs, (out of memory, or a permission-denied error, * etc.), this function will print a message to stderr and return @@ -358,8 +358,10 @@ notmuch_config_open (void *ctx, config->filename = talloc_strdup (config, filename); } else if ((notmuch_config_env = getenv ("NOTMUCH_CONFIG"))) { config->filename = talloc_strdup (config, notmuch_config_env); + } else if ((notmuch_config_env = getenv ("XDG_CONFIG_HOME"))) { + config->filename = talloc_strdup (config, notmuch_config_env); } else { - config->filename = talloc_asprintf (config, "%s/.notmuch-config", + config->filename = talloc_asprintf (config, "%s/.config/notmuch/config", getenv ("HOME")); } -- 2.16.2 _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch