From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: herring@lanl.gov
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ~/.emacs vs ~/.emacs.d/init.el
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:18:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0706211218r2296e360o985f0bb2a2593a8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49782.128.165.123.18.1182452057.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov>
On 6/21/07, Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov> wrote:
> It certainly should! --user picks a _directory_ (the home directory of a
> user), and .emacs, .emacs.d/init.el, etc. are all conceptually relative
> filenames in that directory.
Yes, that's my interpretation, too. But ~/.emacs.d/ appeared at least
seven years ago (there's a reference in the ChangeLog from
2000-04-24). It's hard to believe nobody has worried about -u in all
that time. <conspiranoia>Something Else Is At Work...</conspiranoia>
> I hate to duplicate the
> `user-emacs-directory' variable (or whatever it ends up being called), but
> those filenames should really get `expand-file-name'd against a home
> directory chosen by that option (or by $HOME otherwise).
The Function Without a Name can take care of that easily, I think.
Juanma
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-21 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 10:00 ~/.emacs vs ~/.emacs.d/init.el Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-13 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-13 17:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-13 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-13 17:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-21 18:54 ` Davis Herring
2007-06-21 19:18 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
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