From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:50:28 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87myvz7c2z.fsf@jurta.org> References: <60282.128.165.123.18.1189002441.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <87k5r350o5.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189112180 27665 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2007 20:56:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 22:56:20 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 1ITOOh-0002aT-I7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:56:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITOOf-0003y9-Nz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:56:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITONT-0003Yx-AQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITONR-0003YB-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:55:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITONR-0003Y5-Ei for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITONQ-0004q5-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ITONA-000Bdx-D8; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:54:52 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu\, 06 Sep 2007 16\:28\:53 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: d0b3bc0b24c4067239780ad28ae5b444 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1447 [September 6 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:78032 Archived-At: >> Since .emacs-settings.el is a confusing file name, what about a more >> appropriate and shorter file name like .dir-vars.el or .dir-locals.el >> or .project.el. > > Please go re-read the thread that ended up with "emacs-settings". I can find the following conversation: Stefan> How 'bout "dir-local-settings" instead? Stefan> I'm also tempted to add "emacs" in the name, but I guess that Stefan> the ".el" extension can be considered sufficient information Stefan> (and after all, we don't use the "Emacs" name in the "Local Stefan> Variables" section cookies either). Tom> Mentioning Emacs wouldn't be too bad. "dir-local-settings" is too Tom> long for my taste. Tom> How about ".emacs-settings"? Vagn> Good choice. It also follows "tradition" because dirvars.el uses Vagn> .emacs-dirvars and dir-locals.el uses .emacs-locals. I agree that it's a good tradition to use the same file names for a package and its data files (dirvars.el -> .emacs-dirvars, dir-locals.el -> .emacs-locals), but I don't see how this tradition applies to package.el: package.el -> .emacs-settings.el? This is confusing. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/