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: .emacs-settings.el Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:53:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <60282.128.165.123.18.1189002441.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <87k5r350o5.fsf@jurta.org> <87r6lb7c3p.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189195110 8327 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2007 19:58:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 19:58:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 21:58:30 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 1ITjyB-0000cS-DK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:58:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITjy9-00078E-B8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:58:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITjtv-00016z-FQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:54:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITjtp-0000zx-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITjtp-0000zD-KA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITjto-0008MN-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:53:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITjtU-0004bg-LR; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:53:32 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r6lb7c3p.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:50:02 +0300) 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:78191 Archived-At: Then why don't use similar names in Emacs? If the package name will remain project.el, then name the data file .project.el (the extension .el says that this data file is for Emacs, and the leading dot says that it's a configuration file). If the package will be renamed to settings.el, then name the data file .settings.el. If you're talking about the file name in which the code for this feature will be installed, that will be `files.el'. But that's irrelevant to the question at hand. We don't choose user interface details based on internal implementation details. I want to use a dotfile, to keep the directory uncluttered and to avoid constraining names of source files. (That is the usual purpose of dotfiles.) If the file name ends in `.el', then there is no need to say `emacs' in it too. So I think `.dirvars.el' is a good name. I do not want to use a non-dotfile name because that could conflict with the user's own files. If you want to make that file more visible, make a symlink to it with a non-hidden name.