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Subject: Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:12:38 -0400
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    Though perhaps a standard function to do such name munging would be a
    nice idea, e.g.:

      (user-customization-file-name BASE &optional DOTFILE)

    if .emacs.d doesn't exist  =>  (concat "~/" (or DOTFILE (concat "." BASE)))
    if .emacs.d does eixst     =>  (concat "~/.emacs.d/" BASE)

    Then the savehist example would be (user-customization-file-name "savehist"),
    and .emacs would be (user-customization-file-name "init.el" ".emacs")

That does sound convenient.  Would you like to do it?