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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/pure/ospaths.nim | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/pure/ospaths.nim b/lib/pure/ospaths.nim index 4c667dd92..050482279 100644 --- a/lib/pure/ospaths.nim +++ b/lib/pure/ospaths.nim @@ -516,6 +516,14 @@ when declared(getEnv) or defined(nimscript): proc getConfigDir*(): string {.rtl, extern: "nos$1", tags: [ReadEnvEffect, ReadIOEffect].} = ## Returns the config directory of the current user for applications. + ## + ## On non-Windows OSs, this proc conforms to the XDG Base Directory + ## spec. Thus, this proc returns the value of the XDG_CONFIG_DIR environment + ## variable if it is set, and returns the default configuration directory, + ## "~/.config/", otherwise. + ## + ## An OS-dependent trailing slash is always present at the end of the + ## returned string; `\\` on Windows and `/` on all other OSs. when defined(windows): return string(getEnv("APPDATA")) & "\\" elif getEnv("XDG_CONFIG_DIR"): return string(getEnv("XDG_CONFIG_DIR")) & "/" else: return string(getEnv("HOME")) & "/.config/" |