From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: chad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:00:14 -0500 Message-ID: <221A1E8F-224C-41AC-822A-CFF11CF452DB@gmail.com> References: <87oc5kax8l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739mwnj3v.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oc5kjarb.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878vwnnrfy.fsf@hi-media-techno.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299855764 8395 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2011 15:02:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:02:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dimitri Fontaine Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 16:02:40 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Py3rT-0007qg-0M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:02:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48913 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Py3rS-0005po-Bu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:02:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56693 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Py3rN-0005oT-0y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:02:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Py3rL-0005ss-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:02:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:52364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Py3rL-0005si-M2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:02:31 -0500 Original-Received: by iyf13 with SMTP id 13so3590795iyf.0 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:02:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:subject:mime-version:content-type:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to:x-mailer; bh=ZdOxlDjpxL6cYhAG+B311rSlJoRisG4SN3FI3rfCEfw=; b=jhJLJK6szSeG1ds6621WdEAR5ADeJ/bxdSYHASt+C0u3g8gYeVrTRjH9yqOVZOk6rY TkYBE59acFsyKzAPV1DytB+auUZP3H2Zs5bA0vnRZ0rMOrAH7fSm7eUNh8O6tXVc+BBW 2XXEI+uFxwZvV/vPVuE6olnZpguqPu6wGdOgw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=Dqjw9mJ8giJxUKKVdXQ5FtlTeaVE7Ug/lBiG613eKhF2pWuSs6XZ8Q9TVyxwLkWgZh H0eMhrGU+Sk0Zm5mmKHFNbA2LIjv5vCT3JOLeWSlhnwUEH7X5Gpkm3L2o1VrOqYtaaqf GeZOXsDORpYNS7d5p/TUPwr2XoVyBASMgOcKs= Original-Received: by 10.43.50.199 with SMTP id vf7mr2883860icb.125.1299855625953; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:00:25 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [10.2.1.218] (vbn.0051101.lodgenet.net [12.38.194.3]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id xa8sm3177051icb.22.2011.03.11.07.00.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:00:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <878vwnnrfy.fsf@hi-media-techno.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082.1) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.169 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:137107 Archived-At: On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > > The difference is that I'm after a solution where it's possible to > achieve that with *no* editing of the user-init-file. At all. So that > my el-get installer will just drop a file in `user-load-dir`. I don't understand your resistance to having the installer do the editing instead of the user. This seems like a more general solution that avoids some potential problems and would be useful in situations where a magic directory would not (for example, where *some* configuration is required but easily answered by the user). The end result seems at least as user-friendly, except perhaps in a few degenerate cases. What am I missing? *Chad