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: .emacs-settings.el Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:52:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <60282.128.165.123.18.1189002441.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <87k5r350o5.fsf@jurta.org> <87myvz7c2z.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 1189122766 24710 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2007 23:52:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 23:52:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 01:52:41 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 1ITR9F-0008T5-OS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:52:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITR9D-00045T-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITR9A-00042B-L2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITR98-0003yd-Ux for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITR98-0003yM-KH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:52:26 -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 1ITR98-0000vb-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.141.227]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070906235225.UZNX9197.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:52:25 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CFD2B83C2; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:52:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87myvz7c2z.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu\, 06 Sep 2007 23\:50\:28 +0300") 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:78051 Archived-At: > I agree that it's a good tradition to use the same file names for > a package and its data files (dirvars.el -> .emacs-dirvars, > dir-locals.el -> .emacs-locals), but I don't see how this tradition > applies to package.el: package.el -> .emacs-settings.el? > This is confusing. In my opinion, package.el is itself a poor name, since it hints at other features such as CL packages or XEmacs packages. Stefan