From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: install.el Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:33:13 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EF22C19.8090108@yahoo.com> References: <200306142045.h5EKjoQC022841@rum.cs.yale.edu> <3EF0FEAA.3010607@yahoo.com> <200306191422.h5JEMasZ005954@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056058551 586 80.91.224.249 (19 Jun 2003 21:35:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 19 23:35:47 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19T74N-000098-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:35:47 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19T75f-0001I1-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:37:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19T73m-0006WI-RK for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19T71o-0005Hj-2O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:33:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19T71L-0004xI-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:32:40 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19T71B-0004JT-3D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:32:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19T714-0008IK-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:32:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19T712-0008Hz-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:32:20 +0200 Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15167 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15167 Stefan Monnier wrote: >>>>>(defcustom install-home-file (or user-init-file "~/.emacs") >>>> ^^^^^^^^^^ >>>>This should be ``(convert-standard-filename "~/.emacs")'', for those >>>>platforms where .emacs is an invalid file name. >>>> >>>> >>>Actually, I'm not even sure if it shouldn't just be user-init-file. >>> >>Or default.el or site-run-file, for people maintaining Emacs for >>multiple users at their site. >> > > This is handled elsewhere in install.el. Please read the code > (it's not that long, really ;-) Ah, very nice! -- Kevin Rodgers