# Description
This PR is an attempt to add a standard location for people to put
completions in. I saw this topic come up again recently and IIRC we
decided to create a standard location. I used the dirs-next crate to
dictate where these locations are. I know some people won't like that
but at least this gets the ball rolling in a direction that has a
standard directory.
This is what the default NU_LIB_DIRS looks like now in the
default_env.nu. It should also be like this when starting nushell with
`nu -n`
```nushell
$env.NU_LIB_DIRS = [
($nu.default-config-dir | path join 'scripts') # add <nushell-config-dir>/scripts
($nu.data-dir | path join 'completions') # default home for nushell completions
]
```
I also added these default folders to the `$nu` variable so now there is
`$nu.data-path` and `$nu.cache-path`.
## Data Dir Default
While I was in there, I also decided to add a cache dir
## Cache Dir Default
### This is what the default looks like in Ubuntu.
### This is what it looks like with XDG_CACHE_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME
overridden
```nushell
XDG_DATA_HOME=/tmp/data_home XDG_CACHE_HOME=/tmp/cache_home cargo r
```
### This is what the defaults look like in Windows (username scrubbed to
protect the innocent)
How my NU_LIB_DIRS is set in the images above
```nushell
$env.NU_LIB_DIRS = [
($nu.default-config-dir | path join 'scripts') # add <nushell-config-dir>/scripts
'/Users/fdncred/src/nu_scripts'
($nu.config-path | path dirname)
($nu.data-dir | path join 'completions') # default home for nushell completions
]
```
Let the debate begin.
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Closes#12103
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As described in #12103, this PR makes Nushell use `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` as
the config directory if it exists. Otherwise, it uses the old behavior,
which was to use `dirs_next::config_dir()`.
Edit: We discussed choosing between `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` and the default
config directory in Discord and decided against it, at least for now.
<s>@kubouch also suggested letting users choose between
`XDG_CONFIG_HOME` and the default config directory if config files
aren't found on startup and `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is set to a value
different from the default config directory</s>
On Windows and MacOS, if the `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` variable is set but
`XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either empty or doesn't exist *and* the old config
directory is non-empty, Nushell will issue a warning on startup saying
that it won't move files from the old config directory to the new one.
To do this, I had to add a `nu_path::config_dir_old()` function. I
assume that at some point, we will remove the warning message and the
function can be removed too. Alternatively, instead of having that
function there, `main.rs` could directly call `dirs_next::config_dir()`.
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When `$env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is set to an absolute path, Nushell will use
`$"($env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME)/nushell"` as its config directory (previously,
this only worked on Linux).
To use `App Data\Roaming` (Windows) or `Library/Application Support`
(MacOS) instead (the old behavior), one can either leave
`XDG_CONFIG_HOME` unset or set it to an empty string.
If `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is set, but to a non-absolute/invalid path, Nushell
will report an error on startup and use the default config directory
instead:
On Windows and MacOS, if the `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` variable is set but
`XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either empty or doesn't exist *and* the old config
directory is non-empty, Nushell will issue a warning on startup saying
that it won't move files from the old config directory to the new one.
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The existing config path tests have been modified to use
`XDG_CONFIG_HOME` to change the config directory on all OSes, not just
Linux.
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The documentation will have to be updated to note that Nushell uses
`XDG_CONFIG_HOME` now. As @fdncred pointed out, it's possible for people
to set `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` to, say, `~/.config/nushell` rather than
`~/.config`, so the documentation could warn about that mistake.
It turns out that my previous PR,
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/11999, didn't properly
canonicalize `$nu.default-config-dir` in a scenario where
`XDG_CONFIG_HOME` (or the equivalent on each platform) was a symlink. To
remedy that, this PR makes `nu_path::config_dir()` return a
canonicalized path. This probably shouldn't break anything (except maybe
tests relying on the old behavior), since the canonical path will be
equivalent to non-canonical paths.
# User-Facing Changes
A user may get a path with symlinks resolved and `..`s replaced where
they previously didn't. I'm not sure where this would happen, though,
and anyway, the canonical path is probably the "correct" thing to
present to the user. We're using `omnipath` to make the path presentable
to the user on Windows, so there's no danger of someone getting an path
with `\\?` there.
# Tests + Formatting
The tests for config files have been updated to run the binary using the
`Director` so that it has access to the `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`/`HOME`
environment variables to be able to change the config directory.
