Make it XDG compliant

[piegamesde]

Making the extension XDG compliant should be pretty straightforward: Simply replace local datafile=${ZSHZ_DATA:-${_Z_DATA:-${HOME}/.z}} with local datafile=${ZSHZ_DATA:-${_Z_DATA:-${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/zsh/z}} (not tested).

Implementing it in a backwards-compatible way is a bit less straightforward though: The default file path case needs to check the legacy location in home first and then handle if it exists.

[agkozak]

Thanks for the good idea. I'm going to continue thinking about this one.

I see that there's a proposal to have rupa/z do something like what you suggest.

If rupa/z goes down that path, I will, of course, mimic it -- I like having ZSH-z continue to be a drop-in replacement for it. Let's keep this issue open.

[ratijas]

I wonder, does it make sense anymore to wait for rupa/z to make the first move? Clearly, that project isn't going anywhere at this rate, and even the project owner himself admitted he doesn't use zsh (anymore?)

[agkozak]

I think @rupa has always been solely a bash user; he was kind enough to rewrite his code so that it would work in zsh as well.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who uses both zsh with ZSH-z and bash with rupa/z, and it's nice to have rupa/z use the same database in bash without any extra configuration. I like the idea of having a tidier home directory (which is what I think XDG primarily aims for), but not at the expense of making the inter-operation of the two tools more complicated.

I'd like to leave this issue open and continue to cogitate about it.

In the meantime, remember that you can always set ZSHZ_DATA (or _Z_DATA, if you're using rupa/z as well) to any file you want.

[eugene-reim]

In the meantime, remember that you can always set ZSHZ_DATA

I did it and it doesn't work. I added in .zshrc string ZSHZ_DATA=$HOME/.config/zsh/.zhist and it continues to use the file .z in home

[agkozak]

@eugene-reim Strange -- it works for me. Would you mind posting your whole .zshrc so that I can try to pinpoint what's going wrong? Thanks!

[eugene-reim]

Yep, sure.
zshrc.txt

[agkozak]

In line 93, you have

plugins=(z git sudo zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting)

z is not my plugin -- that's rupa/z, as packaged by Oh-My-Zsh. If you want to use my plugin, you should follow the instructions here -- you'll want to make sure that you install Zsh-z and change that line to

plugins=(zsh-z git sudo zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting)

Let me know if that works.

[eugene-reim]

Oh, sorry, I really didn't notice. I'll try it now, thanks.

[eugene-reim]

Yeah it works! Thank you so much and happy New Year btw!

[agkozak]

@eugene-reim Happy New Year!