From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 05:16:51 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87u0f69ae6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87oe5e977f.fsf@mahaena.lrde> <87oe5dapcz.fsf@mahaena.lrde> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130530780 26487 80.91.229.2 (28 Oct 2005 20:19:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kevin Rodgers , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 28 22:19:35 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVafy-0001ZU-Qc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:18:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVafy-0007qT-7d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:18:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVael-0007Jd-6c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVaej-0007I6-Ea for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:16:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVaei-0007Hu-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:16:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.195] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EVaei-0005xN-2B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:16:52 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so274345wra for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:16:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QCnL4SRybOqiRNRJTePH+UiJpPBrNT8E0CrFNcOSOkoUxTeVzObl3CejAgpaDbdAkOo2bd+84Mysb5Rj0h7D+CFDcetjwCmJAjPJwtW+uDz07vSK2ac2+C7Be5U30rVKDEula8ABEOIMhNQTR95ysMdk6zrs/XpBDMI7ArtPrNs= Original-Received: by 10.54.136.18 with SMTP id j18mr287819wrd; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.157.10 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:45048 Archived-At: 2005/10/29, Richard M. Stallman : > Wouldn't (convert-standard-filename "~/.emacs_savehist") be more > obvious? > > convert-standard-filename does not do anything like this. 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 =3D> (concat "~/" (or DOTFILE (concat "." BASE)= )) if .emacs.d does eixst =3D> (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") -miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.