Re: bug#4347: Bug for .emacs.d?

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>]

Stefan Monnier ha scritto:
>> 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!!!
> 
> That's the intention.  Currently the strategy is to keep using the old
> name if the file already exists, and to use the new name otherwise.
> 
> The strategy is not completely consistent in how to do it, because most
> files in ~/.emacs.d are files which in $HOME should be hidden, but in
> ~/.emacs.d they don't have any reason to be hidden any more (nor to
> include "emacs" in their name), so often the file in ~/.emacs.d doesn't
> have the same name as in ~.  In the case of desktop.el, OTOH you can
> indeed move ~/.emacs.desktop to ~/.emacs.d.

Obviously one can have:

~/.emacs.d/init                  (instead of .emacs)
~/.emacs.d/desktop               (instead of .emacs.desktop)
~/.emacs.d/desktop.lock          (instead of .emacs.desktop.lock)
~/.emacs.d/mail

and so on.

When will all the above be implemented?


Cheers,
Angelo.