From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] for review - Allow expansion of "~" (as opposed to "~user") Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 15:50:20 +0200 Message-ID: <837fuzse3n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83r3ta4fwk.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425304268 13463 80.91.229.3 (2 Mar 2015 13:51:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 13:51:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: petewil@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michal Nazarewicz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 02 14:50:59 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YSQkL-0003jf-Pw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:50:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57139 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSQkL-0004sf-5k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:50:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55640) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSQk1-0004qr-Ab for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:50:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSQjx-0007j2-2Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:50:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:38577) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YSQjw-0007iW-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:50:32 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NKL00D007P66R00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 15:50:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NKL00C4I7S6W380@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 02 Mar 2015 15:50:30 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183566 Archived-At: > From: Michal Nazarewicz > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:44:07 +0100 >=20 > Looking at that code, it appears it=E2=80=99s inconsistent on Windo= ws when it > comes to handling ~/.emacs.d/init.el. If I understand it correctly= , > here=E2=80=99s how Emacs behave on Windows: >=20 > * emacs -> load ~/.emacs, ~/_emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el > * emacs -u foo -> load ~/.emacs or ~/_emacs I'm not bothered about the inconsistency, since the "-u foo" "handling" is a kludge for a situation that shouldn't happen. I wouldn't object to emitting an error in that case. > I would expect it to try loading ~/.emacs.d/init.el as well. Perha= ps we > need something along the lines of: I have no opinion about the suggested changes (nor do I object to them). But please keep ~USER "supported" on MS-DOS, exactly as it is now. I don't want to change anything in that port, unless really needed. Thanks.