From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:29:38 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87k5r350o5.fsf@jurta.org> References: <60282.128.165.123.18.1189002441.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189089399 8860 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2007 14:36:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 14:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: herring@lanl.gov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 16:36:39 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 1ITITB-0006bh-8o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:36:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITIT9-0000Wd-VZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:36:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITISX-0008Ui-9l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:35:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITISV-0008SS-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITISV-0008S6-1L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:35:51 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITISU-0001pV-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:35:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ITIS5-0003fW-SF; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:35:34 +0300 In-Reply-To: <60282.128.165.123.18.1189002441.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Davis Herring's message of "Wed\, 5 Sep 2007 07\:27\:21 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 1678f860418e8694a064f05d5e21ded6 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1444 [September 6 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:77979 Archived-At: >> I cannot remember what you said earlier. How is ~/.emacs-settings.el >> different from the long-used settings file ~/.emacs? How is it >> different from site-start.el or default.el, if those files exist? > > .emacs-settings.el can go in other directories than ~; it affects files > found anywhere in the directory tree that contains it. Moreover, it is > not a file of arbitrary Lisp, but rather contains a set of buffer-local > variables to set in the buffers visiting files it affects, subject to the > normal risk-checking. Since .emacs-settings.el is a confusing file name, what about a more appropriate and shorter file name like .dir-vars.el or .dir-locals.el or .project.el. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/