From: "Stuart D. Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: no such var: user-emacs-directory
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:33:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38210.128.165.123.83.1123518811.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jkoe88fyad.fsf@glug.org>
> `scheme-start-file' in cmuscheme.el now references `user-emacs-directory'
> but that variable is never defined anywhere. the NEWS blurb mentions it,
> although the docstring says "~/.emacs.d".
>
> if the fix is to define `user-emacs-directory', probably many places that
> hardcode "~/.emacs.d" could benefit from using the new variable. but
> that's more work than simply hardcoding it in cmuscheme.el as well (and
> updating NEWS), so i propose to do the latter unless there are objections.
I actually have a variable in my .emacs for this:
`emacs-hidden-directory-base' (usually set to "~/.emacs.d/"). I then put
backups in "backup/" under that, and auto-save-files as ".saves-*" under
it. My reason is to support that file structure even on systems without a
useful home directory, but it might be generally useful. I'd be in favor
of defining that variable; using it everywhere instead of ".emacs.d" would
be trivial. If this sounds good, I can make a patch (either now, or after
22.1).
Davis Herring
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-08 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-08 11:44 no such var: user-emacs-directory Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-08-08 16:33 ` Stuart D. Herring [this message]
2005-08-08 18:22 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-08-08 17:00 ` Emilio C. Lopes
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