From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:18:12 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <8739mwnj3v.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87oc5kax8l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299701932 4761 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2011 20:18:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:18:52 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 21:18:48 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxPqE-0003Xq-0N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:18:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44191 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxPqD-0003xT-6Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:18:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52988 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PxPq4-0003uw-1V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:18:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxPq2-000656-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:18:31 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60243) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PxPq1-00064q-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:18:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PxPq1-0003Rq-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:18:29 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:18:29 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:18:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:biZDnyNX79CW9goEwrrgw6S/YGM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136989 Archived-At: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:51:22 -0500 Chong Yidong wrote: CY> Ben Key writes: >> What is the general consensus on this? Should we build this feature >> in as Ted Zlatanov has requested or should we simply continue the >> development of the package I have started that implements this feature >> and perhaps make it available on ELPA? CY> I still don't understand what "this" is. Why do you need a full-blown CY> package to implement CY> (dolist (f (directory-files dir t "\\.el$")) CY> (load foo)) That's essentially it, but we want to be able to turn it on by customizing a variable to be a LIST of directories (defaulting to nil), not adding code to .emacs. All the other improvements in Ben Key's package, including byte-compilation and recursion, are nice-to-have but not essential to our purpose. Ted