Re: .emacs-settings.el

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:31:32 -0400 Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote: 

RS>     I think surprising the user is a bad thing, so I'd rather not have a
RS>     hidden file.  The penalty of name conflicts is not as bad as using
RS>     hidden data to influence an application's behavior.

RS> I prefer a dotfile.  It will ensure no conflicts with the user's files.
RS> Dotfies are easy to see in dired.

As I said previously, I'm OK with just using a dot-filename since it's
the majority's opinion that it's a fine option.  Let's just make sure
that there's a message when the file is used, and that 
C-h v/customize-variable note the file was used as needed.

Ted