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: .emacs-settings.el Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:08:00 -0600 Message-ID: References: <60282.128.165.123.18.1189002441.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <87k5r350o5.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189110585 22258 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2007 20:29:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:29:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 22:29:45 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 1ITNyx-0002zH-Jb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:29:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITNyv-0007NM-Pc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITNyY-00072U-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:29:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITNyX-00071X-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:29:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITNyX-00071M-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:29:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITNyX-0007Yp-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:29:17 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l86KT99o013143; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:29:10 -0400 Original-Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l86KT9BS022191; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:29:09 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ton.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.15]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l86KT6aA029263; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id BFF26378AF3; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 14:08:01 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <87k5r350o5.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu\, 06 Sep 2007 17\:29\:38 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) 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:78026 Archived-At: >>>>> "Juri" == Juri Linkov writes: Juri> Since .emacs-settings.el is a confusing file name, what about a more Juri> appropriate and shorter file name like .dir-vars.el or .dir-locals.el Juri> or .project.el. Could you say what you think is confusing about it? Obviously I don't find it confusing. 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. Yeah, it is intentionally supposed to be similar to .cvsignore or .svn. The hidden-ness, in my view, is a feature; some projects don't like to "clutter" their top-level directories with things like this. FWIW my precedent here is Eclipse, which makes .project and .settings directories. Tom