From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:44:07 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87fwqwm3c8.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87oc5kax8l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739mwnj3v.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oc5kjarb.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299703480 13853 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2011 20:44:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:44:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 21:44:33 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxQFF-0008D7-4r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:44:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54909 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxQFC-00076L-Cf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:44:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38289 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxQF4-000752-21 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:44:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxQF2-00031q-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:44:21 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43917) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxQF2-000319-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:44:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxQF0-00089R-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:44:18 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:44:18 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:44:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ORCqj0l9nB3Yr05N5g/dF5GZzAQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:136998 Archived-At: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:32:08 -0500 Chong Yidong wrote: CY> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> That's essentially it, but we want to be able to turn it on by >> customizing a variable to be a LIST of directories (defaulting to >> nil), not adding code to .emacs. All the other improvements in Ben >> Key's package, including byte-compilation and recursion, are >> nice-to-have but not essential to our purpose. CY> OK, I guess there's nothing wrong with adding a function to load CY> everything in a directory. But what's the difference between having a CY> variable that defaults to nil and just letting users add CY> (load-directory "~/.emacs.d/my-stuff") CY> to their init file? The former is easier to customize and requires no extra code to be written. For the el-get installer in particular it is easier and less intrusive to customize a variable than to insert code in the .emacs. But I am not strongly opposed to the latter. Ted