Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Create and use $tmpdraftdir for composing

"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mutt.devel
Message-ID <abJvgtHz0yHYukjv@qinghai>
On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 03:33:37PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>It seemed to me that if mutt's $tmpdir already defaulted to $TMPDIR, 
>and we wanted to distinguish $tmpdraftdir as a more persistent 
>temporary place, it made sense to not also set it to the env var by 
>default when set.
>
>So my thinking was defaulting it to the non-volatile "/var/tmp", but 
>the user can just as easily set it to something else in their muttrc.

Note, it's okay to tell me this is a dumb idea.  I'm not adamant about 
it, and perhaps you're right that if they set the env var, we should 
listen to them for both of the configs.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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