no-littering VS dotfiles

https://github.com/emacscollective/no-littering

Check out tarsius_/no-littering.

Look up the no-littering package.

btw, I'm using the https://github.com/emacscollective/no-littering package to determine the location of the custom.el: https://github.com/onetom/onetomacs/blob/main/lib/use-no-littering.el

i use the package no-littering, it's change the default directory for temporary, backup and others files created by packages to two dir, etc and var, so the ~/.emacs.d and buffer directory keep clean from this kind of files

https://github.com/emacscollective/no-littering this moves the backups away, iirc. but I remember from some Emacs videos, that some ppl actually keep all their backup files, so they can grep them, in case they overwrite something, which they haven't committed into version control.

I do use no-littering that doesn't appear to be hiding anything. ~/.emacs.d/var/bmkp/current-bookmark.el contains my bookmarks. Thats the only file there.

re keeping it clean : https://github.com/emacscollective/no-littering

Check out https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles and the SystemCrafters YouTube channel and Github page. Lots of good stuff there for full system configuration.

Then check out the System Crafters website. There is a youtube channel, but David Wilson's notes and his dotfiles are quicker to navigate if you know what you're looking for.

I was watching some videos and saw this https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles/blob/master/Emacs.org, which is HUUUGE. Is there some other resource that I can just start with one piece/package at a time and keep adding more slowly?

Explanation for not using sudo -E: https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles/issues/11

I'm trying to create a configuration with a base-system module with multiple machine configurations deriving from it, based on the example shared by David Wilson in his github repo: https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles

You should avoid using sudo -E or your home directory is slowly gonna fill up with root-owned files.

Lisp take a while to learn, but you really don't need too much knowledge. I would recommend using blocks of code from others' configs as a beginner.

While watching a Systems Crafters playlist about emacs I decided I wanted to checkout his configuration to see if it had anything I would find useful. As his style of development is different from mine I did not find a whole lot, but I did find something useful. In his init.el he has a section that moves files like places to a different directory to keep his ~/.emacs.d clean. As I keep my ~/.emacs.d directory as a symbolic link to my dotfiles repository I immediately added this to my configuration; however, it does not seem to work at least as I expected it to. Within my init.el I have a block of code that is copied from his, but modified slightly to create ~/.cache/emacs if it does not already exist, and then apply the changes to where these files should be stored. I don't seem to get any errors, but this also does not seem to change where those files get stored. Am I misunderstanding what his block of code does?