From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 07:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <60282.128.165.123.18.1189002441.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189002514 1940 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2007 14:28:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:28:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bob@rattlesnake.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 16:28:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISvrg-0005WR-QP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:28:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISvre-0000eI-V1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:28:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISvqt-0008Ns-Bc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISvqr-0008MG-Gk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:27:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISvqr-0008Ln-0P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([192.65.95.54] helo=mailwasher-b.lanl.gov) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISvqq-0006vu-HF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.6/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l85ERPNf018224; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:27:25 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l85ERLwR032322; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:27:21 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l85ERLTJ009976; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:27:21 -0600 Original-Received: (from apache@localhost) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l85ERLvH009972; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 07:27:21 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: webmail1.lanl.gov: apache set sender to herring@lanl.gov using -f Original-Received: from 128.165.123.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 07:27:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-6.el3.2lanl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: herring@lanl.gov X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77862 Archived-At: > I cannot remember what you said earlier. How is ~/.emacs-settings.el > different from the long-used settings file ~/.emacs? How is it > different from site-start.el or default.el, if those files exist? .emacs-settings.el can go in other directories than ~; it affects files found anywhere in the directory tree that contains it. Moreover, it is not a file of arbitrary Lisp, but rather contains a set of buffer-local variables to set in the buffers visiting files it affects, subject to the normal risk-checking. Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.