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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:19:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85tzq780bv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28x7jpmtq.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu\, 06 Sep 2007 15\:21\:05 -0500")

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:34:32 +0200 David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote: 
>
> DK> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:04:30 +0200 michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac) wrote: 
>>> 
> MC> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> 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.
>
> DK> Uh, you are arguing against _any_ file with a .* name right now: all
> DK> of them are used to influence an application's behavior without
> DK> cluttering directory listings.
>
> DK> So I don't buy this argument.
>
> I think you've missed the difference between a hidden file anywhere in
> the directory tree and in a well-known location.

In a well-known location there is no reason to hide files, since the
well-known location need not hold other files.

So no, I am not missing anything, and it is not polite of you to
presume that anybody not agreeing with you must be stupid.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-07  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-05 10:46 .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-05 14:27 ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-06 14:29   ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-06 15:23     ` .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 15:36       ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 16:04         ` .emacs-settings.el Michaël Cadilhac
2007-09-06 16:48           ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 19:34             ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-06 20:21               ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 21:07                 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-07  2:11                   ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 23:55                 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07  2:18                   ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07  2:54                 ` .emacs-settings.el Miles Bader
2007-09-07  4:03                   ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 12:03                   ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07  6:19                 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-09-07 11:56                   ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 15:49                   ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-06 20:39             ` .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 21:00               ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07  6:31             ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 12:09               ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 20:22           ` .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 20:10         ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-06 20:51           ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 17:40           ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-08 17:47             ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-08 19:19               ` .emacs-settings.el T. V. Raman
2007-09-08 22:17                 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-08 23:11                   ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-08 23:09                     ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-09  1:28                   ` .emacs-settings.el T. V. Raman
2007-09-09  8:09                   ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-10 22:21                   ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-09 20:06               ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-10 14:08                 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-12  8:46                   ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 19:53           ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-06 20:08     ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-06 20:50       ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-07 17:43         ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 19:53         ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-08 17:43           ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-06 20:58       ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07  3:05         ` .emacs-settings.el Miles Bader
2007-09-07  6:17         ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-07  7:07           ` .emacs-settings.el Jason Rumney
2007-09-07  7:18             ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-07 12:08               ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 15:52             ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-08  7:00             ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-06 20:28     ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-06 20:50       ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-06 23:52         ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-06 23:41           ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-07  8:52             ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-07 12:14   ` .emacs-settings.el Johannes Weiner
2007-09-07 16:03     ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-07 16:35     ` .emacs-settings.el Drew Adams
2007-09-07 18:11       ` .emacs-settings.el joakim
2007-09-08  7:01       ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-08  7:00     ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman

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