From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, snogglethorpe@gmail.com,
michael.cadilhac@lrde.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:14:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EWOFb-0006RP-QL@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pspn9kc0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:59:43 -0500)
;; This tells `load' to store the file name found
;; into user-init-file.
(setq user-init-file t)
(load user-init-file-1 t t)
If the `load' function succeeds, it automagically binds
`user-init-file' to the loaded filename. I don't know why this was
written this way, but maybe there is a reason?
The reason is to record the actual name found, whether it be .emacs or
.emacs.el, or whatever.
We need the actual file name, not just something that we could
pass to `load' and load the same file.
Also, if you want to use this function for the init file, you would
have to account for the "_emacs" dotfile name used on MS-DOS and
MS-Windows. In particular, MS-Windows uses "~/.emacs" by default, but
if that is not available it accepts "~/_emacs" as the dotfile.
That particular case does seem to needs special code.
It is no big deal if the one case of .emacs can't use the
general function (but it would be nice if it could).
Another note: it seems to me that most libraries that use ".emacs.d"
look for it in "~". Would it make sense to extend the
`init-file-user' variable so that the directory goes into
(concat "~" init-file-user "/.emacs.d")
Yes!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-31 1:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-24 15:58 Use .emacs.d in savehist.el Stefan Monnier
2005-10-24 21:22 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-25 20:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-25 9:30 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2005-10-25 14:30 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-25 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-25 19:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <87oe5e977f.fsf@mahaena.lrde>
2005-10-25 9:59 ` Michael Cadilhac
2005-10-25 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-26 16:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-26 23:28 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-27 3:58 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-27 16:53 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-10-28 16:19 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-28 20:16 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-29 5:12 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-29 17:31 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-30 0:03 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-29 3:51 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-29 20:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-30 4:00 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-30 4:30 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-30 13:59 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-31 1:14 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-10-31 2:29 ` Chong Yidong
2005-11-01 2:14 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-01 3:43 ` Chong Yidong
2005-11-01 5:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-01 12:54 ` Chong Yidong
2005-11-02 10:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-02 15:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-02 10:26 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-02 10:26 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-27 9:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-30 4:07 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-25 15:58 ` Richard M. Stallman
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