From 0b183a89b472462b21b60172e7f29b88413e5811 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Y. Meyer-Norwood" <106889957+norwd@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:38:03 +1300
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Add support for the XDG Base Directory Specification

This adds the `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` directory to the `CONFIG_DIRS`, allowing the `~/.tt/*` directory structure to be moved to `~/.config/tt/*`.

See also: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest
---
 src/util.go | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/util.go b/src/util.go
index 66f005b..90dd869 100644
--- a/src/util.go
+++ b/src/util.go
@@ -18,7 +18,13 @@ var CONFIG_DIRS []string
 func init() {
 	home, _ := os.LookupEnv("HOME")
 
+	configDir, isConfigSet := os.LookupEnv("XDG_CONFIG_HOME")
+	if !isConfigSet {
+		configDir = filepath.Join(home, ".config")
+	}
+
 	CONFIG_DIRS = []string{
+		filepath.Join(configDir, "tt"),
 		filepath.Join(home, ".tt"),
 		"/etc/tt",
 	}

From f68d4efadb56534454f152a5f7c559204cc761a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Y. Meyer-Norwood" <106889957+norwd@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:42:33 +1300
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add documentation of `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/tt` paths

---
 man.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man.md b/man.md
index aa593ad..6818b10 100644
--- a/man.md
+++ b/man.md
@@ -195,6 +195,10 @@ Modify to taste.
   not exist, the following directories are searched for a file with the given
   name before falling back to internal resources:
 
+  ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/tt/words\
+  ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/tt/themes\
+  ~/.config/tt/words\
+  ~/.config/tt/themes\
   ~/.tt/words\
   ~/.tt/themes\
   /etc/tt/words\

From 643a5ef5303b605aa3481377c584bc2e98105546 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Y. Meyer-Norwood" <106889957+norwd@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:46:33 +1300
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Add documentation of ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/tt paths to
 README

---
 README.md | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 439ca6a..bf6dc5e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ See `-help` for an exhaustive list of options.
 
 ## Configuration
 
-Custom themes and word lists can be defined in `~/.tt/themes` and `~/.tt/words`
+Custom themes and word lists can be defined in `~/.config/tt/themes` and `~/.config/tt/words`
+(or `~/.tt/themes` and `~/.tt/words`, if no `tt` directory exists in `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`)
 and used in conjunction with the `-theme` and `-words` flags. A list of
 preloaded themes and word lists can be found in `words/` and `themes/` and are
 accessible by default using the respective flags.