{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3261","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3261/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3261/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3261/events","html_url":"https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3261","id":109706295,"number":3261,"title":"User assignment of private directory","user":{"login":"rubic","id":198470,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/198470?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubic","html_url":"https://github.com/rubic","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubic/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubic/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubic/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubic/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubic/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubic/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubic/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubic/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rubic/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2015-10-04T21:35:38Z","updated_at":"2015-10-04T21:57:24Z","closed_at":"2015-10-04T21:53:29Z","body":"The spacemacs private directory is effectively hard-coded to ```~/.emacs.d/private```.  It would be useful to allow the user to assign it to a different directory (e.g. ```~/.spacemacs.d```) to keep private layers, bookmarks, snippets, etc. out of ~/.emacs.d, which is effectively \"owned\" by spacemacs.\r\n\r\nSnippets and bookmarks directories can currently be reassigned via:\r\n\r\n * ```bookmark-default-file```\r\n * ```auto-completion-private-snippets-directory```\r\n\r\nBut there is no way to specify a separate private layers directory.\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/comments/145391832","html_url":"https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3261#issuecomment-145391832","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3261","id":145391832,"user":{"login":"justbur","id":2208382,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2208382?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/justbur","html_url":"https://github.com/justbur","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justbur/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justbur/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justbur/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justbur/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justbur/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justbur/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justbur/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justbur/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/justbur/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-04T21:57:24Z","updated_at":"2015-10-04T21:57:24Z","body":"By the way if you use a spacemacs directory spacemacs will search it recursively for layers in it by default. "}}