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, 16 Mar 2011 09:16:10 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87pqprw3px.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87oc5kax8l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739mwnj3v.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oc5kjarb.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300285413 13793 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2011 14:23:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:23:33 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 15:23:29 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 1PzrdI-0008TM-Tc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:23:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34670 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzrdI-0001n4-AL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:23:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45504 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pzra8-0008Di-05 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzra6-0003Yh-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34633) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzra6-0003YO-Kg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pzra4-0005ry-SS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:20:08 +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, 16 Mar 2011 15:20:08 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:20:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 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:FBpdW4YHS0iSLaBUB2yI6RqywTM= 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:137285 Archived-At: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:32:08 -0500 Chong Yidong wrote: CY> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> 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. CY> OK, I guess there's nothing wrong with adding a function to load CY> everything in a directory. But what's the difference between having a CY> variable that defaults to nil and just letting users add CY> (load-directory "~/.emacs.d/my-stuff") CY> to their init file? Chong, Stefan, can I take this and the lack of new posts in this thread to mean it's OK to commit an experimental implementation of the load-dir idea? I don't know if Ben Key's paperwork is in progress but as you observed it's not terribly complicated code so I can implement it in a functionally similar way quickly (adding his work once we have his copyright assignment). Thanks Ted