From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: dot-files
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:04:12 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ITbdE-002KHjC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
Calling dot-files `hidden' is misleading. 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'.
(I know there is an tradition to call dot-files hidden; but I think it
is and always has been a mistake.)
I have many more dot-files dot-files in my home directory than I
expected, 922 according to dired running ~/.* . That number includes
backups for files such as ~/.bashrc and files such as ~/.xinitrc-test
along with its backups.
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2007-09-07 11:04 Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2007-09-07 12:23 ` dot-files Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 13:12 ` dot-files Stefan Monnier
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