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: status of dir-vars or dir-locals inclusion in emacs? Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:18:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200709042153.l84LrdvU008320@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200709051732.l85HWNUp007863@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189016336 21902 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2007 18:18:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 18:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 20:18:55 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 1ISzSm-0003eY-G3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:18:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISzSk-0001xb-ME for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISzSh-0001xJ-7z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:18:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISzSf-0001x0-Pu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:18:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISzSf-0001wq-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:18:45 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts10.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.54] helo=tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISzSb-0003is-EU; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:18:41 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.53.192.250]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070905181840.FMPY9197.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:18:40 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2FBE58010; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:18:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200709051732.l85HWNUp007863@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Wed\, 05 Sep 2007 10\:32\:11 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:77885 Archived-At: >> > Can we please reduce the number of the files that are looked up from 3 >> > to 2? >> > Do we need both .emacs-settings.el and .emacs-settings? IMHO one of >> > them should be enough. >> >> Even just one seems to be plenty. >> Either .emacs-settings or .emacs-settings.el (no preference between the >> two). > The reason I thought about 2 was so that we can have a .emacs-settings > file and another one that does not start with a dot for > filesystems/OSes that have issues with files that start with a dot. We have only .emacs and it works fine (yes I know we had _emacs at some point but this is not needed any more). If there's any problem with .emacs-settings, convert-standard-filename will deal with it. Stefan