From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:53:58 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87u0f69ae6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87oe5e977f.fsf@mahaena.lrde> <87oe5dapcz.fsf@mahaena.lrde> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130433263 17852 80.91.229.2 (27 Oct 2005 17:14:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 19:14:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVBIj-0005TZ-M1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:12:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVBIW-00024q-Sn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:12:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVB6A-0002aU-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:59:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVB5p-0002TM-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVB5o-0002TB-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EVB5n-0003ZA-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:59:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EVB3I-0000FS-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:56:32 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:56:31 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:56:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: 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:44975 Archived-At: Richard M. Stallman wrote: > BTW, the name "~/.emacs.d/emacs" (with or without a dot) seems rather > weird, and gives me little clue what the file actualy is for. Is it > an init file, like ~/.emacs? If so, something like > "~/.emacs.d/init.el" would be a great deal more clear... > > That is a good point. I've always wondered where the "~/.emacs.d" directory name comes from. Wouldn't (convert-standard-filename "~/.emacs_savehist") be more obvious? -- Kevin Rodgers