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.files are very useful. I like the consistent idiom for where your "global" settings go for virtualenv, npm, tslint, flake8, git, whatever.

But it would have been so nice just to move it into a ~/cfgs or fine... even a ~/.cfgs or whatever.

I'm guessing engineers went, "ewww, I'd have to walk down the tree to find the next most relevant config file to use and then go UP into a directory when I hit home."



Most of what I use supports the XDG ~/.config directory, which is nice. But there's still some that doesn't support it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory#Hard...




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