From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: persistent storage for Emacs packages Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:53:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <19473_1382126090_5261920A_19473_52_3_0b1fb8bede554cb79d9303697d2056a2@EXHUB2010-3.campus.MCGILL.CA> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382147641 16026 80.91.229.3 (19 Oct 2013 01:54:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 01:54:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Tyler Smith Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 19 03:54:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VXLjv-00051w-Gi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 03:54:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60022 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXLjv-0000MY-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:54:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXLjk-0000Ax-24 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:53:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXLjc-0008Lw-PL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:2328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VXLjc-0008KV-KP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:53:44 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhAKABK/CFFLd+GD/2dsb2JhbABEvgwEA3sXc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2NJYNlA6R6gV6DE4FL X-IPAS-Result: AhAKABK/CFFLd+GD/2dsb2JhbABEvgwEA3sXc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2NJYNlA6R6gV6DE4FL X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="35854569" Original-Received: from 75-119-225-131.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.225.131]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 18 Oct 2013 21:53:43 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 127EE610B6; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:53:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Tyler Smith's message of "Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:01:15 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164339 Archived-At: > That would do. Is ~/.emacs.d/ guaranteed to be present? No. > What happens if a user is using ~/.emacs instead of ~/.emacs.d/init.el? Nothing in particular. The ~/.emacs.d directory may still exist, or not. So you may have to create the directory. Stefan