From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Jan_Dj=C3=A4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:09:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87oc5kax8l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739mwnj3v.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oc5kjarb.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878vwnnrfy.fsf@hi-media-techno.com> <221A1E8F-224C-41AC-822A-CFF11CF452DB@gmail.com> <77AE2522-A2AE-40C0-BFD1-1D8FFC744551@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 8F190) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299924571 2150 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2011 10:09:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:09:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 12 11:09:27 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 1PyLlG-0007LG-Ni for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:09:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38900 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PyLlF-0004FD-DL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:09:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58968 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PyLl5-0004DH-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyLl4-0005Vs-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:09:15 -0500 Original-Received: from smtprelay-h22.telenor.se ([195.54.99.197]:34767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyLl4-0005VR-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:09:14 -0500 Original-Received: from iph4.telenor.se (iph4.telenor.se [195.54.127.135]) by smtprelay-h22.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805C1245DA for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:09:10 +0100 (CET) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.100] X-LISTENER: [smtp.bredband.net] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiFDAILVek1V4S1kPGdsb2JhbACJBpxiWAsBAQEBNzLBUIViBJAggyI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.62,307,1297033200"; d="scan'208";a="1865436206" Original-Received: from c-642de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.100]) by iph4.telenor.se with ESMTP; 12 Mar 2011 11:09:10 +0100 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.248] (janiphone [172.20.199.248]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 94C657FA05A; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:09:09 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <77AE2522-A2AE-40C0-BFD1-1D8FFC744551@gmail.com> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (8F190) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 195.54.99.197 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:137146 Archived-At: 12 mar 2011 kl. 06:51 skrev chad : > On Mar 11, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: >=20 >>=20 >> It's not user friendly to go edit the user file from a program in my >> book. Like not at all. >=20 > Have you ever run any Gnome or KDE programs? I think your expectations=20 > of `user friendly' might not match either new or experienced emacs users. >=20 No Gnome or KDE program I know of edits user configuration files. They edit t= he programs private configuration file, but these aren't user configuration f= iles that the user is supposed to edit. The user configures the program with a GUI interface. This is not the same a= s with Emacs where the user is explicitly told to edit .emacs. Jan D.