You are correct. `--config-path` isn't really what I thought it was. That 
being said, I'm no closer to understanding this default preferences window 
that appears on macOS[1] GUI programs.

[1] https://files.catbox.moe/cp6vsn.png

On Saturday, October 6, 2018 at 10:08:33 AM UTC-7, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>
> There's not currently a way to set that path dynamically. I'm not sure 
> what it would mean to call a Racket function to set that value, since 
> the configuration path is used to read the initial settings of various 
> parameters, such as `current-library-collection-paths`, that are needed 
> to boot Racket. 
>
> I think maybe you don't want to set `--config-path`, but you want to 
> instead want to store preferences in a different and separately 
> configured path. But I may misunderstand. 
>
> At Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:45:01 -0700 (PDT), Lehi Toskin wrote: 
> > In the docs for raco exe, there exists a switch `--config-path` that you 
> > can specify to tell the executable to look in this directory for a 
> config 
> > file. Is there a way to set this as a runtime path instead? When OS X 
> runs 
> > my test program, it'll have Cmd-, set as the default shortcut for 
> opening 
> > the preferences which appears to use the default "etc" directory, but I 
> > don't yet see a way to make the path be set to any user's .config (or 
> maybe 
> > XDG) directory. 
> > 
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