From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dimitri Fontaine Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:41:20 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87oc5kax8l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739mwnj3v.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oc5kjarb.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878vwnnrfy.fsf@hi-media-techno.com> <221A1E8F-224C-41AC-822A-CFF11CF452DB@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299865304 2808 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2011 17:41:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:41:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 18:41:39 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Py6LI-0000sJ-76 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:41:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43624 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Py6LH-0001hj-MN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:41:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48053 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Py6L9-0001gb-T7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:41:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Py6L8-0005yH-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:41:27 -0500 Original-Received: from prometheus.naquadah.org ([212.85.154.174]:54257 helo=mx1.naquadah.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Py6L8-0005xf-Ni for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:41:26 -0500 Original-Received: by mx1.naquadah.org (Postfix, from userid 8) id AFCE65C134; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:41:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from DimIMac.local (89-159-58-5.rev.dartybox.com [89.159.58.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.naquadah.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 620EA5C0F3; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:41:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by DimIMac.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 89A4E1B6527E; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:41:20 +0100 (CET) User-Mail-Address: dim@tapoueh.org In-Reply-To: <221A1E8F-224C-41AC-822A-CFF11CF452DB@gmail.com> (chad's message of "Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:00:14 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 212.85.154.174 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:137113 Archived-At: chad writes: > I don't understand your resistance to having the installer do the editing > instead of the user. This seems like a more general solution that avoids > some potential problems and would be useful in situations where a > magic directory would not (for example, where *some* configuration > is required but easily answered by the user). I just frown at the idea that a *user* file is edited by anyone else than the user, explicitly. > The end result seems at least as user-friendly, except perhaps in a few > degenerate cases. What am I missing? It's not user friendly to go edit the user file from a program in my book. Like not at all. Regards, -- dim