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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:09:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ps0un0c3.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1ITXNM-00036o-V9@fencepost.gnu.org

On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:31:32 -0400 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote: 

RS>     I think surprising the user is a bad thing, so I'd rather not have a
RS>     hidden file.  The penalty of name conflicts is not as bad as using
RS>     hidden data to influence an application's behavior.

RS> I prefer a dotfile.  It will ensure no conflicts with the user's files.
RS> Dotfies are easy to see in dired.

As I said previously, I'm OK with just using a dot-filename since it's
the majority's opinion that it's a fine option.  Let's just make sure
that there's a message when the file is used, and that 
C-h v/customize-variable note the file was used as needed.

Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-07 12:09 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               ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
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     ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
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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