Cannot find any direnv.toml config file

[bolinocroustibat]

On some machines (several Debian 12 VMs, and on an Android 14 device with Termux), after installing direnv with apt/apt-get, I cannot find any direnv.toml config file. I've been looking in ~/.config/direnv/direnv.toml and I tried to check with the content of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (which is empty).

Where should I look for the direnv.toml config file after install, if not in ~/.config/direnv/direnv.toml?

[moyarich]

you have to create it:

mkdir -p $HOME/.config/direnv
touch $HOME/.config/direnv/direnv.toml

Then manually add TOML settings to your direnv.toml file

For example

[global]
load_dotenv = true

[bolinocroustibat]

Thanks, after posting the issue I just realized we might have to create it. It should be great to be more clear in the doc about that.

[bolinocroustibat]

We can change the label from bug to documentation and I can rewrite the issue if needed

[zimbatm]

Do you have a sense of where in the documentation this should be added?

[bolinocroustibat]

It could be at the very top of https://direnv.net/man/direnv.toml.1.html#codeloaddotenvcode, saying the config file is not created by default and should be created be created by the user. Does that make sense?