From f12697c897a0b8d3a2bd783ae000af0a38ecf5e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 06:30:29 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Better error when kitty config dir is a file

See #697
---
 kitty/constants.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kitty/constants.py b/kitty/constants.py
index 99dda63e8..fd377ec63 100644
--- a/kitty/constants.py
+++ b/kitty/constants.py
@@ -58,7 +58,10 @@ def _get_config_dir():
 
     candidate = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(os.environ.get('XDG_CONFIG_HOME') or '~/.config'))
     ans = os.path.join(candidate, appname)
-    os.makedirs(ans, exist_ok=True)
+    try:
+        os.makedirs(ans, exist_ok=True)
+    except FileExistsError:
+        raise SystemExit('A file {} already exists. It must be a directory, not a file.'.format(ans))
     return ans