From 0be43691d09176c39b8345953dae6e29b5e122cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C5=99emysl=20Janouch?= Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 20:29:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update README --- README.adoc | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index 9510721..b83176c 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -142,6 +142,17 @@ Consult the source code and the GNU Readline manual for a list of available functions. Also refer to the latter for the exact syntax of this file. Beware that you can easily break the program if you're not careful. +Configuration profiles +---------------------- +Even though the applications don't directly support configuration profiles, +they conform to the XDG standard, and thus you can change the location they +load configuration from via XDG_CONFIG_HOME (normally '~/.config') and the +location where store their data via XDG_DATA_HOME (normally '~/.local/share'). + +It would be relatively easy to make the applications assume whatever name you +run them under (for example by using symbolic links), and load different +configurations accordingly, but I consider it rather messy and unnecessary. + Contributing and Support ------------------------ Use this project's GitHub to report any bugs, request features, or submit pull