What's the proper way to save state in a zsh plugin?

Question

I'm writing a simple plugin that needs to remember the last directory the user has visited (across all sessions). I'm thinking I'll use a file to store the path to the directory, but I'd hate to dump this .stupid_plugin_file_conf_file in the user's home directory. A better alternative would be to store it in the script's parent directory. What's common practice?

Answer 1

Your plugin and any files it uses should go in a subdirectory under ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins.