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Suggest using XDG convention to locate the ocaml init file #40

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MisterDA opened this issue Jan 15, 2025 · 2 comments
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Suggest using XDG convention to locate the ocaml init file #40

MisterDA opened this issue Jan 15, 2025 · 2 comments
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The README suggests using ~/.ocamlinit, but since OCaml 4.10 the toplevel adheres to the XDG convention (thanks!). The README and the opam package description should reflect that. Opam files also have a post-message field which could be used to prompt the user to add the configuration to the init file.
@dbuenzli dbuenzli added the enhancement New feature or request label Jan 15, 2025
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The post-install message could also advise to install ocp-index. This would prevent an error later raised:

Error: Completion and doc lookup needs ocp-index. Try 'opam install ocp-index'.

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nojb commented Jan 15, 2025

The post-install message could also advise to install ocp-index. This would prevent an error later raised:

Error: Completion and doc lookup needs ocp-index. Try 'opam install ocp-index'.

Incidentally, if you are trying ocp-index I think OCamlPro/ocp-index#170 will be useful (unfortunately, left unmerged by the maintainers).

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