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From: Eric Marsden <emarsden@laas.fr>
Subject: Re: password shows on emacs as a shell
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:15:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wzifzu7kxtz.fsf@melbourne.laas.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3vg334zaj.fsf@defun.localdomain

>>>>> "jh" == Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

  ke> On SuSE Linux ~/.emacs loads ~/.gnu-emacs; thus please edit
  ke> ~/.gnu-emacs if you want to add own customizations.

  jh> Do you know why?
  jh> 
  jh> It seems like a somewhat stu^Hrange decision. It makes it much
  jh> more cumbersome to give people advice here -- especially if
  jh> other distributors get "creative" too and all them make up
  jh> gratuitous names for '~/.emacs'.

I agree; this is very unfortunate packaging on the part of SuSE. They
ignore the standard site-init facility, putting all their
customizations in each user's personal init file. Their customizations
are extensive, intrusive, undocumented, and in certain cases
misguided.
  
-- 
Eric Marsden                          <URL:http://www.laas.fr/~emarsden/>

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-12  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-05 16:33 password shows on emacs as a shell Luigi
2002-11-05 16:46 ` Peter Weiss, Sun Microsystems, Germany
2002-11-07 22:09   ` Luigi
2002-11-07 23:24     ` those who know me have no need of my name
2002-11-08 19:29       ` Luigi
2002-11-08 17:23     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-11-11 11:55       ` Luigi
2002-11-11 20:01       ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-11-11 20:38         ` Jesper Harder
2002-11-12  8:15           ` Eric Marsden [this message]
2002-11-12 18:31             ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-11-05 17:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-11-11 21:06   ` Luigi
2002-11-11 21:15   ` Luigi
2002-11-05 17:20 ` Joachim Pense

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