From: Stefan Kangas Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 08:15:08 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ; * etc/NEWS: Improve wording of 'xdg-state-home' entry. X-Git-Tag: emacs-29.0.90~1856^2~531 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7d315ce63090e9afe7f10853848f9781fd072c17;p=emacs.git ; * etc/NEWS: Improve wording of 'xdg-state-home' entry. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 4053e39b773..82168038c34 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -3452,11 +3452,13 @@ This means the vscroll will not be reset when set on a window that is ** XDG support --- -*** New function 'xdg-state-home' returns 'XDG_STATE_HOME' environment variable. -This new location, introduced in the XDG Base Directory Specification -version 0.8 (8th May 2021), "contains state data that should persist +*** New function 'xdg-state-home'. +It returns the new 'XDG_STATE_HOME' environment variable. It should +point to a file name that "contains state data that should persist between (application) restarts, but that is not important or portable enough to the user that it should be stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME". +(This variable was introduced in the XDG Base Directory Specification +version 0.8 released on May 8, 2021.) --- *** New function 'xdg-current-desktop'.