From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dot-files Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:23:47 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189167850 10212 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2007 12:24:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:24:10 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 14:24:10 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 1ITcsZ-0005pO-Sc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:24:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITcsY-0005Ey-Nu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:24:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITcsV-0005CZ-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:24:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITcsU-0005Aw-IY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITcsU-0005AJ-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITcsS-0003wf-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ITcsQ-0003b3-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:23:58 +0200 Original-Received: from c-24-14-57-89.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([24.14.57.89]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:23:58 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-24-14-57-89.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:23:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-14-57-89.hsd1.il.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7g+Px1t5Lo9cdyk5zbzdFJv8K28= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:78145 Archived-At: On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 11:04:12 +0000 (UTC) "Robert J. Chassell" wrote: RJC> Calling dot-files `hidden' is misleading. They are used for RJC> configuration. By convention they are hidden from visual display by default on Unix-like systems, and don't match '*' shell patterns (AKA "match everything"). Why is it misleading to state this fact? Whether they are used for configuration is the software package's decision and it is also a convention to use them that way. Emacs generally uses just a few dot-files in a well-known location for configuration, so my discussion was about the surprise to current Emacs users. Ted