From: antono <self@antono.info>
To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com
Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ~/.emacs.d/ in load path (Calc file conflict)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:59:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uoxhcgw.fsf@antono.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hay1pvxv.fsf@gmail.com>
On Tue 06 Mar 2012 06:53:48 PM FET, Jay Belanger wrote:
> I recently got a message from a user who was having trouble starting
> Calc when he had Calc settings saved in `calc-settings-file', which by
> default is "~/.emacs.d/calc.el". The user has "~/.emacs.d/" in his load
> path, and so when Calc is started Emacs will look in his settings file
> "~/.emacs.d/calc.el" instead of ".../lisp/calc/calc.el" for autoloaded > functions.
Good observation. Overall this liberal usage of ~/.emacs.d for
different kinds of configs and caches does not looks good and leads to
such ugly errors.
What if Emacs define some emacs-cache-dir and emacs-data-dir variables
and recomend to use them in extensions?
What do you think, emacs gurus?
Previous art:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
- http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-12 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-06 15:53 ~/.emacs.d/ in load path (Calc file conflict) Jay Belanger
2012-03-06 17:56 ` chad
2012-03-06 18:09 ` Jay Belanger
2012-03-07 1:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-03-07 17:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-07 18:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-03-07 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-12 18:59 ` antono [this message]
2012-03-12 22:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
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