Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir

[Stefan Monnier]

> I think this proposal is really about code snippets that people would
> otherwise just cut and paste into their .emacs file.  The average
> user's .emacs often winds up containing mostly code they found
> somewhere and use without really understanding it.  Dropping each
> snippit in its own file would be a big help if the user ever did need
> to debug some problem with his init, or if he decided one day to
> actually learn elisp.

I'm far from convinced it's better for people to drop random chunks of
configuration into separate files rather than all in the .emacs file.

If you're talking about downloading random files containing
configuration code (so the user doesn't have to create a file, inventing
a file name for it), then maybe that could make sense, but I haven't
seen such files very much, and I suspect many of them could easily be
turned either into themes or into packages installable via package.el.


        Stefan