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Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:07:11 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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.
- Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, (continued)
- Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, Chong Yidong, 2005/10/28
- Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/29
- Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, Chong Yidong, 2005/10/30
- Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, Miles Bader, 2005/10/30
- Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, Chong Yidong, 2005/10/30
- Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/30
- Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, Chong Yidong, 2005/10/30
- Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/31
- Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, Chong Yidong, 2005/10/31
- Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, Kim F. Storm, 2005/10/27
- Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el,
Chong Yidong <=
Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, Hrvoje Niksic, 2005/10/25
Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/10/25