From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: package.el Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 21:00:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> <85d50wq6a9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <54877.128.165.123.18.1179791333.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180227709 23565 80.91.229.12 (27 May 2007 01:01:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 01:01:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: david.reitter@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tromey@redhat.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 27 03:01:47 2007 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 4.50) id 1Hs78k-0006K6-JQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 03:01:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs78k-0005s7-AQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 21:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs77y-0004kx-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 21:00:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs77x-0004kP-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 21:00:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs77x-0004kL-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 21:00:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hs77w-0006du-GG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 21:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hs77j-0005NI-Hn; Sat, 26 May 2007 21:00:43 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Tom Tromey on Fri, 25 May 2007 15:39:46 -0600) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:71849 Archived-At: * Lots of places hard-code .emacs.d, some use _emacs_d, and one uses convert-standard-filename. My patch uses option #2 but maybe convert-standard-filename is better? What is crucial is that all uses of this directory operate compatibly. They should all do what `convert-standard-filename' would do. It is not crucial that they do this by calling `convert-standard-filename', and emacsclient can't do that. But it would be nice if they do call `convert-standard-filename' whenever that is feasible. * I wasn't sure what to do about the doc strings and the Texinfo. Should they all mention `user-emacs-directory'? Or just leave them as-is, mentioning ~.emacs.d/, and let the reader figure it out? emacsclient.c won't be able to use `user-emacs-directory' just as it won't be able to call `convert-standard-filename'.