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Re: status of dir-vars or dir-locals inclusion in emacs?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: status of dir-vars or dir-locals inclusion in emacs? |
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Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:28:09 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > Can we please reduce the number of the files that are looked up from 3
> > > to 2?
> > > Do we need both .emacs-settings.el and .emacs-settings? IMHO one of
> > > them should be enough.
> >
> > Even just one seems to be plenty.
> > Either .emacs-settings or .emacs-settings.el (no preference between the
> > two).
>
> The reason I thought about 2 was so that we can have a
> .emacs-settings file and another one that does not start with a dot
> for filesystems/OSes that have issues with files that start with a
> dot.
For those file systems there already is a substitution mechanism in
place: for example, as far as Emacs is concerned, "~/.emacs" is the
startup file even for those file systems.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Re: status of dir-vars or dir-locals inclusion in emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/03