From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:39:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <61k49rb7vk.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110902091157.GA2770@acm.acm
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Hi, Deniz.
>
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 07:44:02AM +0200, Deniz Dogan wrote:
>> The lisp/ directory in trunk could use some more subdirectories.
>
>> Examples:
>
>> dired-aux.el
>> dired-x.el
>> dired.el
>> epa-dired.el
>> find-dired.el
>> image-dired.el
>
>> help-at-pt.el
>> help-fns.el
>> help-macro.el
>> help-mode.el
>> help.el
>
>> ps-bdf.el
>> ps-def.el
>> ps-mule.el
>> ps-print.el
>> ps-samp.el
>
> I'd say no. once you start making small directories they're going to
> start stacking up in an increasingly tall tree.
>
> I've been in proprietary projects with around 20,000 files in them, all
> in directories with ~8-10 files in each. Visiting a file in such a
> hierarchy is a nightmare, as you have to enter, perhaps, 6 successive
> directory names to get there. That's a lot of names to have to navigate
> through.
>
> I've been told that small directories are optimal for selecting files
> with dialog boxes, but that's not how Emacs works. I sometimes find it
> irritating even to have to go one level down from ../lisp to
> ../lisp/progmodes.
>
> So my vote is for few large directories rather than many small ones. I
> would go further than Stefan, and say a new directory we create should
> have at least 100 files, not 20.
Fwiw, I would agree with that. Small dirs look nice on paper in
orgnisation charts but soon become a selection and maintenance
nightmare. Especially with built in smart file pickers/selects like
ido-mode there to ease the burden. Certainly my once hierarchical emacs
setup soon became a single .emacs.d ... Smart filenames are the key -
prefix is good.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-02 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-01 5:44 Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/? Deniz Dogan
2011-09-01 8:35 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-02 2:17 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-02 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-02 9:11 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-02 9:39 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2011-09-02 10:13 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-09-02 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-02 17:52 ` chad
2011-09-04 15:30 ` Kan-Ru Chen
2011-09-06 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-20 13:58 ` Nix
2011-09-21 1:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-21 9:40 ` chad
2011-09-02 16:26 ` Bill Wohler
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