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: .emacs-settings.el Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:58:26 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: References: <60282.128.165.123.18.1189002441.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <87k5r350o5.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189112432 28618 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2007 21:00:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:00:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 23:00:32 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 1ITOSd-0003oq-GA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:00:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITOSb-00067e-My for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITORH-0005KP-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITORE-0005Iq-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITORE-0005Im-1x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:58:56 -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 1ITORD-0005ow-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:58:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ITOR5-0004ud-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:58:47 +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 ; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:58:47 +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 ; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:58:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 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:gYK278YDSu3mg3rF8NLsPMBLvHk= 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:78034 Archived-At: On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:08:00 -0600 Tom Tromey wrote: Ted> That's what I mean by "suprising" and "hidden." Only a few Ted> applications put such hidden settings files outside the home Ted> directory, I can think only of the CVS .cvsignore and Subversion Ted> .svn directories at the moment. Tom> Yeah, it is intentionally supposed to be similar to .cvsignore or Tom> .svn. The hidden-ness, in my view, is a feature; some projects don't Tom> like to "clutter" their top-level directories with things like this. Tom> FWIW my precedent here is Eclipse, which makes .project and .settings Tom> directories. I think Emacs should not default to getting default settings from a hidden file in the path, personally, but it should be possible via customization to choose that behavior. I wouldn't expect Emacs to do that by default, that's all. Ted