From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: tromey@redhat.com
Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:52:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odgevml2.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3bqcf8iqa.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Thu\, 06 Sep 2007 17\:41\:33 -0600")
>>> I agree that it's a good tradition to use the same file names for
>>> a package and its data files (dirvars.el -> .emacs-dirvars,
>>> dir-locals.el -> .emacs-locals), but I don't see how this tradition
>>> applies to package.el: package.el -> .emacs-settings.el?
>>> This is confusing.
>
> Stefan> In my opinion, package.el is itself a poor name, since it
> Stefan> hints at other features such as CL packages or XEmacs
> Stefan> packages.
>
> FWIW -- it is "project.el"; "package.el" is that other thing I wrote
> that we all argue about :-)
Oops, perhaps I mistyped the package name because you are the author of
both packages.
> RMS already asked that I just put the code into files.el. So all that
> will be left are the symbol names starting with "project-".
Hmm, in this case the package name is irrelevant for naming data files.
> Perhaps even "project" is a misnomer. It is hard to say. I do think
> the best use for this feature is project-specific settings.
I agree, "project" is a misnomer. It can be used for project-specific
settings, but not necessarily limited to this.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-07 8:52 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 ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
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 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
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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