From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:34:32 +0200 Message-ID: <857in3bnav.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <60282.128.165.123.18.1189002441.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <87k5r350o5.fsf@jurta.org> <87veanixv5.fsf@cadilhac.name> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189107303 10470 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2007 19:35:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:35:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 21:35:01 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 1ITN7r-0003Ot-Vr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:34:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITN7p-0003yx-Vx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITN7n-0003ys-KW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:34:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITN7l-0003yg-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITN7l-0003yd-2Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:34:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.44]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITN7k-0004Tx-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:34:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.16]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37B9A1802B4; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:34:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.46]) by mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25AA5ABE72; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:34:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-057-134.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.57.134]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B52B035E745; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:34:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 096681CAD71B; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:34:32 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu\, 06 Sep 2007 11\:48\:59 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4173/Thu Sep 6 20:35:28 2007 on mail-in-06.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean 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:78014 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:04:30 +0200 michael@cadilhac.name (Micha=EBl Cadil= hac) wrote:=20 > > MC> Ted Zlatanov writes: >>> I would not make it hidden, to avoid surprises: project.el > > MC> So sad the features of project.el will not be usable in the lisp/ > MC> directory of Emacs, then :-) > > I think surprising the user is a bad thing, so I'd rather not have a > hidden file. The penalty of name conflicts is not as bad as using > hidden data to influence an application's behavior. Uh, you are arguing against _any_ file with a .* name right now: all of them are used to influence an application's behavior without cluttering directory listings. So I don't buy this argument. --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum