From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:28:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvean5yjy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k5r350o5.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu\, 06 Sep 2007 17\:29\:38 +0300")
>>> I cannot remember what you said earlier. How is ~/.emacs-settings.el
>>> different from the long-used settings file ~/.emacs? How is it
>>> different from site-start.el or default.el, if those files exist?
>>
>> .emacs-settings.el can go in other directories than ~; it affects files
>> found anywhere in the directory tree that contains it. Moreover, it is
>> not a file of arbitrary Lisp, but rather contains a set of buffer-local
>> variables to set in the buffers visiting files it affects, subject to the
>> normal risk-checking.
> Since .emacs-settings.el is a confusing file name, what about a more
> appropriate and shorter file name like .dir-vars.el or .dir-locals.el
> or .project.el.
Please go re-read the thread that ended up with "emacs-settings".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-05 10:46 .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-05 14:27 ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-06 14:29 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-06 15:23 ` .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 15:36 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 16:04 ` .emacs-settings.el Michaël Cadilhac
2007-09-06 16:48 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 19:34 ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-06 20:21 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 21:07 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-07 2:11 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 23:55 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 2:18 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 2:54 ` .emacs-settings.el Miles Bader
2007-09-07 4:03 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 12:03 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 6:19 ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-07 11:56 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 15:49 ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-06 20:39 ` .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 21:00 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 6:31 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 12:09 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 20:22 ` .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 20:10 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-06 20:51 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 17:40 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-08 17:47 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-08 19:19 ` .emacs-settings.el T. V. Raman
2007-09-08 22:17 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-08 23:11 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-08 23:09 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-09 1:28 ` .emacs-settings.el T. V. Raman
2007-09-09 8:09 ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-10 22:21 ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-09 20:06 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-10 14:08 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-12 8:46 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 19:53 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-06 20:08 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-06 20:50 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-07 17:43 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 19:53 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-08 17:43 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-06 20:58 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 3:05 ` .emacs-settings.el Miles Bader
2007-09-07 6:17 ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-07 7:07 ` .emacs-settings.el Jason Rumney
2007-09-07 7:18 ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-07 12:08 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 15:52 ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-08 7:00 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-06 20:28 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-09-06 20:50 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-06 23:52 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-06 23:41 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-07 8:52 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-07 12:14 ` .emacs-settings.el Johannes Weiner
2007-09-07 16:03 ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-07 16:35 ` .emacs-settings.el Drew Adams
2007-09-07 18:11 ` .emacs-settings.el joakim
2007-09-08 7:01 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-08 7:00 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
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