From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:21:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28x7jpmtq.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 857in3bnav.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:34:32 +0200 David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
DK> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:04:30 +0200 michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac) wrote:
>>
MC> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>>> I would not make it hidden, to avoid surprises: project.el
>>
MC> So sad the features of project.el will not be usable in the lisp/
MC> directory of Emacs, then :-)
>>
>> I think surprising the user is a bad thing, so I'd rather not have a
>> hidden file. The penalty of name conflicts is not as bad as using
>> hidden data to influence an application's behavior.
DK> Uh, you are arguing against _any_ file with a .* name right now: all
DK> of them are used to influence an application's behavior without
DK> cluttering directory listings.
DK> So I don't buy this argument.
I think you've missed the difference between a hidden file anywhere in
the directory tree and in a well-known location. We're talking about a
{project,dir-locals}.el file that in /a, /a/b, /a/b/c, or /a/b/c/d could
affect the settings for /a/b/c/d/* and every file under that. You'd
have to do a `find` to get all the hidden files (or some equivalent
shell game). That's what I mean by "suprising" and "hidden." Only a
few applications put such hidden settings files outside the home
directory, I can think only of the CVS .cvsignore and Subversion .svn
directories at the moment. Emacs doesn't do that AFAIK, so it would be
at least a little surprising to current users. I personally think it
would be a bad design decision.
Files like .emacs, .profile, etc. are in a single, well-known location,
so they are easy to find. This compensates for their invisibility
(whether that's a good design decision is another discussion that's not
pertinent).
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-05 10:46 .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-05 14:27 ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-06 14:29 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-06 15:23 ` .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 15:36 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 16:04 ` .emacs-settings.el Michaël Cadilhac
2007-09-06 16:48 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 19:34 ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-06 20:21 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2007-09-06 21:07 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-07 2:11 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 23:55 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 2:18 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 2:54 ` .emacs-settings.el Miles Bader
2007-09-07 4:03 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 12:03 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 6:19 ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-07 11:56 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 15:49 ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-06 20:39 ` .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 21:00 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 6:31 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 12:09 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-06 20:22 ` .emacs-settings.el Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-06 20:10 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-06 20:51 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 17:40 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-08 17:47 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-08 19:19 ` .emacs-settings.el T. V. Raman
2007-09-08 22:17 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-08 23:11 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-08 23:09 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-09 1:28 ` .emacs-settings.el T. V. Raman
2007-09-09 8:09 ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-10 22:21 ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-09 20:06 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-10 14:08 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-12 8:46 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 19:53 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-06 20:08 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-06 20:50 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-07 17:43 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 19:53 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-08 17:43 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-06 20:58 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 3:05 ` .emacs-settings.el Miles Bader
2007-09-07 6:17 ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-07 7:07 ` .emacs-settings.el Jason Rumney
2007-09-07 7:18 ` .emacs-settings.el David Kastrup
2007-09-07 12:08 ` .emacs-settings.el Ted Zlatanov
2007-09-07 15:52 ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-08 7:00 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-06 20:28 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-06 20:50 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-06 23:52 ` .emacs-settings.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-06 23:41 ` .emacs-settings.el Tom Tromey
2007-09-07 8:52 ` .emacs-settings.el Juri Linkov
2007-09-07 12:14 ` .emacs-settings.el Johannes Weiner
2007-09-07 16:03 ` .emacs-settings.el Davis Herring
2007-09-07 16:35 ` .emacs-settings.el Drew Adams
2007-09-07 18:11 ` .emacs-settings.el joakim
2007-09-08 7:01 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
2007-09-08 7:00 ` .emacs-settings.el Richard Stallman
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