From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ~/.emacs vs ~/.emacs.d/init.el Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:18:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <49782.128.165.123.18.1182452057.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182453661 5414 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2007 19:21:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: herring@lanl.gov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 21 21:20:59 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 1I1SDA-0002WO-He for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:20:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1SD9-0005OM-T7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:20:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1SB9-0004jo-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:18:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1SB6-0004ih-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:18:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1SB5-0004ie-Vy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.227]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1SB4-0004vF-JX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:18:46 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h26so640613wxd for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:18:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bYp8Hm26XOAOzFjIzNiWBjgeyFq6PrugTbUR8FHxWkn6Zhng2xRxmp83JjMfw9rwMLkXYjWrG6btYvPfqgXR8N4zFG/7Doy+357vPsaTN3vhEoJw77PalxxlzkXfBhxDYI1QzidElzMmr25bFbDXq0tc5xpkbFOq1PpnAIsR+UU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WfqahsPiXc4LF/b5/p+lUXSsnrHhucDMKpn/jp9htzJCl4U67SDl/NghnmmhTsn5rc1DpEvgAQY+Xm2/RppnUDSnNHY/l8Mj5V0miBC3AjQuXTUjcMz/adHVrJfaOt3R21xwYcyTyp3aaRz11y7BUuX4+s6IQ9tf24qn+DWaAeE= Original-Received: by 10.90.25.3 with SMTP id 3mr2145391agy.1182453521316; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:18:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.87.8 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:18:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49782.128.165.123.18.1182452057.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:73552 Archived-At: On 6/21/07, Davis Herring 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. Something Else Is At Work... > 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