From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: init-dir unification Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:58:31 -0500 Message-ID: <87acghqt7s.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <20051104184837.28E2F1207E6@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131317932 17074 80.91.229.2 (6 Nov 2005 22:58:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 22:58:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ihs_4664@yahoo.com, miles@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 06 23:58:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EYtTC-0005R9-Pp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 23:58:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EYtTC-0000ER-7D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:58:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EYtT2-0000E7-16 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:58:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EYtT1-0000Dk-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:58:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EYtT1-0000Df-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:58:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [18.95.6.101] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EYtT0-0004ft-8O; Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:58:26 -0500 Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 64D661E4314; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 17:58:31 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:43:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:45528 Archived-At: "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > The argument NAME to init-directory, and the argument SUBDIRECTORY of > user-customization-file-name, make the code harder to understand. As > far as I can see, they are unnecessary. Why do you think this is > necessary? To allow Lisp programs to save into subdirectories of .emacs.d, just like we do for auto-save list files: ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/