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

[Jan D.]

Ted Zlatanov skrev 2011-03-08 22:38:
> On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:59:51 -0500 Stefan Monnier<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> SM>  If you're really talking about configuration code rather than packages,
> SM>  then I tend to assume that people whose .emacs is so large as to need
> SM>  modularization can figure out which kind of modularization they want and
> SM>  implement (or copy&paste) the corresponding loop to load the various files.
>
> Yes, but you're assuming managing configuration modules in monolithic
> Emacs Lisp is the best way.  Give us something simple and easy to manage
> the loop at the filesystem level, so we don't have to write it
> ourselves.
>
> SM>  I'm not even sure why you'd want to "modularize" in this way: my .emacs
> SM>  was fairly large but splitting it into separate files never seemed like
> SM>  a good way to help, since I'd then have to figure out how to make C-s
> SM>  and M-/ find matches in neighboring files.  Instead I "split" it with
> SM>  outline-minor-mode.
>
> For me it works better.  I like small files; outline-minor-mode and
> folding-mode don't work for me.  I suspect I'm not the only one.  See
> the URLs above for a list of similar needs.

As others have said, I was also suprised that dropping a .el-fil in 
~/emacs.d didn't load it by default.  My emacs is quite big and I'd love 
to split it up.  Another thing I really would like is for customize to 
save its stuff in its own file and not in my .emacs.  With a load-dir 
this would be trivial.

There is a real need an packages isn't it.  Its like wanting a rowing 
boat and told to use the latest battle ship instead.

        Jan D.