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Re: .emacs-settings.el


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:19:00 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:34:32 +0200 David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote: 
>
> DK> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>>> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:04:30 +0200 address@hidden (Michaƫl Cadilhac) wrote: 
>>> 
> MC> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>> I would not make it hidden, to avoid surprises: project.el
>>> 
> MC> So sad the features of project.el will not be usable in the lisp/
> MC> directory of Emacs, then :-)
>>> 
>>> I think surprising the user is a bad thing, so I'd rather not have a
>>> hidden file.  The penalty of name conflicts is not as bad as using
>>> hidden data to influence an application's behavior.
>
> DK> Uh, you are arguing against _any_ file with a .* name right now: all
> DK> of them are used to influence an application's behavior without
> DK> cluttering directory listings.
>
> DK> So I don't buy this argument.
>
> I think you've missed the difference between a hidden file anywhere in
> the directory tree and in a well-known location.

In a well-known location there is no reason to hide files, since the
well-known location need not hold other files.

So no, I am not missing anything, and it is not polite of you to
presume that anybody not agreeing with you must be stupid.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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