From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Marsden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: password shows on emacs as a shell Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:15:52 +0100 Organization: LAAS-CNRS http://www.laas.fr/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84vg389dqr.fsf@crybaby.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037090844 9383 80.91.224.249 (12 Nov 2002 08:47:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:47:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18BWhf-0002RD-00 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:47:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18BWgf-0006hn-00; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 03:46:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!opentransit.net!jussieu.fr!utc.fr!univ-lille1.fr!news.cict.fr!news.laas.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: melbourne.laas.fr Original-X-Trace: kane.laas.fr 1037088952 3117 140.93.21.103 (12 Nov 2002 08:15:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@laas.fr Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Nov 2002 08:15:52 GMT X-Message-Flags: Please don't feed the Microserfs X-Eric-Conspiracy: there is no conspiracy X-Attribution: ecm X-URL: http://www.chez.com/emarsden/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106957 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3509 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3509 >>>>> "jh" == Jesper Harder writes: ke> On SuSE Linux ~/.emacs loads ~/.gnu-emacs; thus please edit ke> ~/.gnu-emacs if you want to add own customizations. jh> Do you know why? jh> jh> It seems like a somewhat stu^Hrange decision. It makes it much jh> more cumbersome to give people advice here -- especially if jh> other distributors get "creative" too and all them make up jh> gratuitous names for '~/.emacs'. I agree; this is very unfortunate packaging on the part of SuSE. They ignore the standard site-init facility, putting all their customizations in each user's personal init file. Their customizations are extensive, intrusive, undocumented, and in certain cases misguided. -- Eric Marsden