Re: update-subdirs and lisp/term

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 26, 2009, at 11:03 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > > > Let me put it another way: why would it be a good idea to put  
> > > > lisp/term
> > > > in update-subdirs?
> > > To avoid a special case that someone could trip on.  Every other
> > > subdirectory gets subdirs.el created in it, but term does not.
> > The CEDET subdirectories will also lack subdirs.el.  In fact, you  
> > agreed
> > to it yourself, as a solution to the 8+3 filename restriction for  
> > CEDET,
> > remember?
>
> BTW, if the Org people want to use a similar trick, I'd be happy to  
> add
> `org' to the list of exceptions that aren't added to load-path (so all
> the files lisp/org/org-foo.el can be renamed lisp/org/foo.el and then
> loaded via (require 'org/foo)).

Nice.  I wish I had known this 2 year ago when I was really
struggling with some of those 8+3 filenames.

For now we are fine, but thanks for the offer.

- Carsten