Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>    Just for consistency sake, shouldn't it be `~/.emacs.d/.history', as
>>    we have ~/.emacs.d/.emacs ?
>
> I don't care about this kind of consistency.  The "." prefix doesn't make
> much sense here: it's only useful to hide "administrative" files among other
> non-adminitrative files.  E.g. in config files in ~ or for ~/.cvsignore.
> If the user looks inside ~/.emacs.d he probably doesn't want to ignore the
> emacs config file and the history file.  Otherwise, there won't be
> anything left.  So if anything needs fixing it's the ~/.emacs.d/.emacs.

On a similar note, how about the shell init files .emacs_SHELLNAME?
Currently, they can go into ~/.emacs.d/ too.