From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Angelo Graziosi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4347: Bug for .emacs.d? Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:12:19 +0200 Message-ID: <4AACFDC3.7070908__7391.6447734975$1252852083$gmane$org@alice.it> References: <4AA1B07E.3080703@alice.it> <4AAABF56.40802@alice.it> <4AAB5BD0.2010503@alice.it> <4AACEE4F.6060404@alice.it> Reply-To: Angelo Graziosi , 4347@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252852084 3538 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2009 14:28:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:28:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , 4347@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, Emacs To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 13 16:27:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mmq3X-0005ol-RV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:27:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44897 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mmq3X-0003xC-9t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:27:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mmq2q-0003YR-MF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:27:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mmq2k-0003Wt-Hx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37672 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mmq2j-0003Vn-JO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:60916) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mmq2i-00058q-Ap for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n8DER0Z3030327; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:27:01 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8DEK54h029049; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:20:05 -0700 Resent-Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:20:05 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Angelo Graziosi Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:20:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 4347 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 4347-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B4347.125285114927994 (code B ref 4347); Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:20:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 4347) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 13 Sep 2009 14:12:29 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from smtp-OUT05A.alice.it (smtp-OUT05A.alice.it [85.33.3.5]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n8DECQxf027863 for <4347@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:12:28 -0700 Original-Received: from FBCMMO03.fbc.local ([192.168.68.197]) by smtp-OUT05A.alice.it with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:12:20 +0200 Original-Received: from FBCMCL01B01.fbc.local ([192.168.69.82]) by FBCMMO03.fbc.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:12:20 +0200 Original-Received: from [82.57.151.5] ([82.57.151.5]) by FBCMCL01B01.fbc.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:12:21 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Sep 2009 14:12:21.0184 (UTC) FILETIME=[3582E400:01CA347C] X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:27:10 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:31039 Archived-At: 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.