From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#4347: Bug for .emacs.d? Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:04:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4AA1B07E.3080703@alice.it> <4AAABF56.40802@alice.it> <4AAB5BD0.2010503@alice.it> <4AACEE4F.6060404@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252850672 32497 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2009 14:04:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:04:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , 4347@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, Emacs To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 13 16:04:24 2009 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 1Mmpgl-00009Z-Lq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:04:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33122 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mmpgk-0003Kw-RD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:04:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mmpgf-0003K6-Qa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mmpgb-0003EN-26 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34241 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mmpga-0003ED-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:04:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.248.154.183] (port=42316 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mmpga-000229-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:04:12 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqQEAK6YrEpFpZBe/2dsb2JhbACBUtZohBgFh3Q X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,379,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="45620857" Original-Received: from 69-165-144-94.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.144.94]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 13 Sep 2009 10:02:34 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 684E48356; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:04:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4AACEE4F.6060404@alice.it> (Angelo Graziosi's message of "Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:06:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:115271 Archived-At: > So, instead to have: > ~/.emacs > ~/.emacs.desktop > ~/.emacs.desktop.lock > ... > we could have: > ~/.emacs.d/.emacs > ~/.emacs.d/.emacs.desktop > ~/.emacs.d/.emacs.desktop.lock > ~/.emacs.d/mail > ... > In this way we could have a more clean HOME!!! That's the intention. Currently the strategy is to keep using the old name if the file already exists, and to use the new name otherwise. The strategy is not completely consistent in how to do it, because most files in ~/.emacs.d are files which in $HOME should be hidden, but in ~/.emacs.d they don't have any reason to be hidden any more (nor to include "emacs" in their name), so often the file in ~/.emacs.d doesn't have the same name as in ~. In the case of desktop.el, OTOH you can indeed move ~/.emacs.desktop to ~/.emacs.d. Stefan