From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: status of dir-vars or dir-locals inclusion in emacs? Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:28:09 +0200 Message-ID: <85odghhsqu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200709042153.l84LrdvU008320@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200709051732.l85HWNUp007863@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189016932 24165 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2007 18:28:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 18:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , joakim@verona.se, rms@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 20:28:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISzcE-0006PV-8P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:28:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISzcC-0000bC-DW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISzc6-0000Vj-KF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:28:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISzc4-0000Qv-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISzc3-0000QR-UC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:28:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISzbz-0005lv-JT; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:28:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC604CC83; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:28:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.45]) by mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5B42DAC48; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:28:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-072-218.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.72.218]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E491C331F; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:28:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 2116A1CAD71B; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:28:09 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <200709051732.l85HWNUp007863@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Wed\, 05 Sep 2007 10\:32\:11 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4166/Wed Sep 5 17:20:22 2007 on mail-in-05.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77887 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > > > > Can we please reduce the number of the files that are looked up from 3 > > > to 2? > > > Do we need both .emacs-settings.el and .emacs-settings? IMHO one of > > > them should be enough. > > > > Even just one seems to be plenty. > > Either .emacs-settings or .emacs-settings.el (no preference between the > > two). > > The reason I thought about 2 was so that we can have a > .emacs-settings file and another one that does not start with a dot > for filesystems/OSes that have issues with files that start with a > dot. For those file systems there already is a substitution mechanism in place: for example, as far as Emacs is concerned, "~/.emacs" is the startup file even for those file systems. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum