From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: bob@rattlesnake.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dot-files
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:12:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzlzyr589.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ITbdE-002KHjC@rattlesnake.com> (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Fri\, 7 Sep 2007 11\:04\:12 +0000 \(UTC\)")
> Calling dot-files `hidden' is misleading.
That's a possible interpretation, but I think it's not relevant to the
problem at hand anyway. Let's not get dragged into such
a fruitless discussion.
> They are used for configuration. I like seeing them. That is why I use
> the default value of dired-listing-switches "-al". As David Kastrup says,
> dot-files `are supposed to be auxiliary data, not content'.
Agreed. dot-files are used for meta-data. And .emacs-settings very much
qualifies as meta-data.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-07 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-07 11:04 dot-files Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-07 12:23 ` dot-files Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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