From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:00:08 -0700 Message-ID: References: <5f0ff9220811130629t505badf9kb1bcc380df89a08f@mail.gmail.com> <87y6zn4pqw.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <200811131607.mADG71u6010167@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <200811131619.mADGJukm010206@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <87prkz4kgh.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <200811131728.mADHSH2M010654@mothra.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Tom Tromey NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226602853 7170 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2008 19:00:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "T.V. Raman" , Chong Yidong , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 13 20:01:53 2008 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 1L0hRi-0000Fa-G8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:01:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43337 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hQa-0003JJ-HR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hQU-0003Hn-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hQQ-0003HN-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60991 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hQQ-0003HK-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:51360) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0hQQ-0001DA-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:18 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mADJ0CSa027859; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:12 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mADJ0B8G031504; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:11 -0500 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-13-92.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.13.92]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mADJ09Yi002194; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:10 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id D4FAE3786E3; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:00:08 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Thu\, 13 Nov 2008 18\:55\:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 172.16.27.26 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:105663 Archived-At: >>>>> "Juanma" == Juanma Barranquero writes: Juanma> As a first datapoint, ".dir-settings.el" is ugly as hell to my eyes. I Juanma> wouldn't dream of having Emacs-specific files in a source tree and not Juanma> naming them ".emacs-WHATEVER". RMS specifically asked that "emacs" not appear in the name. He thought it was redundant given the ".el" extension, which, as I recall, he asked for. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00667.html Tom