From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
4347@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, Emacs <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#4347: Bug for .emacs.d?
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:06:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AACEE4F.6060404@alice.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbplgj74h.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier ha scritto:
>>> There's no question that the behavior changed. And clearly you do not
>>> like it. But ... what's the harm?
>>> Lots of programs create a ~/.foo directory at start.
>> Just a question: is the creation of this empty directory (~/.emacs.d) the
>> result of a design in the code for the next Emacs 23.2 or is it a unexpected
>> result of that code?
>
> It's not on-purpose, no. It's not exactly unexpected, tho. The issue
> is pretty simple: Emacs packages often can use either ~/.<foo> (old
> style) or ~/.emacs.d/<foo> (new style) files to store some customization
> or state.
>
> If neither of the two files exist, we prefer to use ~/.emacs.d/<foo>,
> but at the time we make this choice, we usually don't know yet whether
> the file will be written, and at the time the file is written, we
> generally assume that the parent directory already exists.
>
> So the ~/.emacs.d directory is created eagerly.
>
> In other words, this behavior is clearly not a feature, but "fixing" it
> is somewhat of a pain for very little gain.
OK. If you want to give a more deep meaning to that ~/-emacs.d
directory, you can left that Emacs creates it, *and* move ALL
files/directories which Emacs creates in $HOME, there!!
So, instead to have:
~/.emacs
~/.emacs.desktop
~/.emacs.desktop.lock
...
we could have:
~/.emacs.d/.emacs
~/.emacs.d/.emacs.desktop
~/.emacs.d/.emacs.desktop.lock
~/.emacs.d/mail
...
In this way we could have a more clean HOME!!!
Cheers,
Angelo.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-13 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-05 0:27 Bug for .emacs.d? Angelo Graziosi
2009-09-05 2:12 ` bug#4347: " Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-11 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-11 20:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-11 21:21 ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-09-12 4:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-12 8:29 ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-09-12 19:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-12 21:43 ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-09-12 21:43 ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-09-13 2:31 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-13 2:57 ` message creates ~/Mail [was Re: bug#4347: Bug for .emacs.d?] Glenn Morris
2009-09-13 3:23 ` message creates ~/Mail Miles Bader
2009-09-13 8:20 ` Reiner Steib
2009-09-13 8:56 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-13 11:12 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-09-14 19:07 ` Glenn Morris
2009-09-13 4:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-13 2:31 ` bug#4347: Bug for .emacs.d? Miles Bader
2009-09-13 13:06 ` Angelo Graziosi [this message]
2009-09-13 13:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-13 13:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-13 13:48 ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-09-13 13:48 ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-09-13 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-13 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-13 14:12 ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-09-13 14:12 ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-09-13 17:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-13 17:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-13 16:06 ` desktop and ~/.emacs.d/ (was: bug#4347: Bug for .emacs.d?) Reiner Steib
2009-09-14 1:26 ` desktop and ~/.emacs.d/ Stefan Monnier
2009-09-14 1:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-14 14:22 ` Davis Herring
2009-09-14 14:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-14 15:17 ` Davis Herring
2009-09-13 13:06 ` bug#4347: Bug for .emacs.d? Angelo Graziosi
2009-09-12 19:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-12 8:29 ` Angelo Graziosi
2009-09-12 11:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-12 19:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-12 19:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
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