Using MS Windows standard paths for config and data

[dasupradyumna]

Currently, I see that WezTerm looks for wezterm.lua and other helper modules under ~/.config/wezterm or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/wezterm. While this is clean on Linux systems, it ends up creating non-standard folders on Windows such as ~\.config and ~\.local\share.

Wouldn't it be better to use indigenous Windows folder paths such as %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA% for this purpose? I think it would improve the way wezterm interacts with the filesystem on Windows as well!

Thanks for the amazing terminal. Cheers ~

[neilfranci]

I'm using Neovim, I just want the config dir on Windows just be like ~\.config to more simpler.
I set the environment to $env:XDG_CONFIG_HOME = "$HOME/.config" that is all. I always store all config there.
%LOCALAPPDATA% was a pain in Windows. There are hundreds of folders in there for each software I installed and some don't relate to the mean of config at all. :/

[wez]

I have no plans to use the appdata directories; it works against the idea that the same configuration layout can be used on multiple operating systems. Today I can bootstrap my dotfiles from git on any OS and have the same wezterm configuration running, and I don't have to deal with remembering to use or typing in the awkward appdata paths when I'm editing my config on windows.