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 23:50:02 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87r6lb7c3p.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 1189112146 27529 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2007 20:55:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tromey@redhat.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 22:55:46 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 1ITOO8-0002MW-Ru for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:55:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITOO6-0003lX-W2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:55:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITONG-0003TB-Lg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:54:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITONF-0003S7-9o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:54:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITONE-0003Rw-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:54:48 -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 1ITOND-0004oP-VT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:54:48 -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 1ITON0-000BYo-Md; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:54:43 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Tom Tromey's message of "Thu\, 06 Sep 2007 14\:08\:00 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 233cb89e4cdd9c68f6fe52a505261b56 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:78031 Archived-At: > Juri> Since .emacs-settings.el is a confusing file name, what about a more > Juri> appropriate and shorter file name like .dir-vars.el or .dir-locals.el > Juri> or .project.el. > > Could you say what you think is confusing about it? Exactly what you can see in the message that started this thread, i.e. when users first encounter the file .emacs-settings.el, the first reaction is that it somehow related to general Emacs settings in .emacs. > FWIW my precedent here is Eclipse, which makes .project and .settings > directories. Then why don't use similar names in Emacs? If the package name will remain project.el, then name the data file .project.el (the extension .el says that this data file is for Emacs, and the leading dot says that it's a configuration file). If the package will be renamed to settings.el, then name the data file .settings.el. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/