From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ~/.emacs.d/ in load path (Calc file conflict)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 09:56:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <295F2318-7DD6-43FE-A737-B6D5ACF4160D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hay1pvxv.fsf@gmail.com>
I've never seen it happen before, but that's hearsay.
Searching for `.emacs.d' on EmacsWiki, I see that it tells users explicitly not to do this (for exactly the reason that your user found) in the sections describing startup files, the first two results:
emacswiki.org/emacs/DotEmacsDotD
emacswiki.org/emacs/LoadPath
Seems like good news. I also found a couple examples of people doing it (TimAnderson, ExtraLicense) in the first page of search results, which is less good news.
Hope that helps,
*Chad
On Mar 6, 2012, at 7:53 AM, Jay Belanger wrote:
>
> I recently got a message from a user who was having trouble starting
> Calc when he had Calc settings saved in `calc-settings-file', which by
> default is "~/.emacs.d/calc.el". The user has "~/.emacs.d/" in his load
> path, and so when Calc is started Emacs will look in his settings file
> "~/.emacs.d/calc.el" instead of ".../lisp/calc/calc.el" for autoloaded
> functions.
> Is "~/.emacs.d/" often in the load path?
>
> I can change the default value of `calc-settings-file' to something that
> will avoid the conflict mentioned above (while still using
> "~/.emacs.d/calc.el" if it exists), but should such a change wait for
> the 24.1 release?
>
> Jay
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-06 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-06 15:53 ~/.emacs.d/ in load path (Calc file conflict) Jay Belanger
2012-03-06 17:56 ` chad [this message]
2012-03-06 18:09 ` Jay Belanger
2012-03-07 1:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-03-07 17:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-07 18:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-03-07 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-12 18:59 ` antono
2012-03-12 22:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
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