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Re: .emacs-settings.el
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: .emacs-settings.el |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:28:53 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> I cannot remember what you said earlier. How is ~/.emacs-settings.el
>>> different from the long-used settings file ~/.emacs? How is it
>>> different from site-start.el or default.el, if those files exist?
>>
>> .emacs-settings.el can go in other directories than ~; it affects files
>> found anywhere in the directory tree that contains it. Moreover, it is
>> not a file of arbitrary Lisp, but rather contains a set of buffer-local
>> variables to set in the buffers visiting files it affects, subject to the
>> normal risk-checking.
> Since .emacs-settings.el is a confusing file name, what about a more
> appropriate and shorter file name like .dir-vars.el or .dir-locals.el
> or .project.el.
Please go re-read the thread that ended up with "emacs-settings".
Stefan
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, (continued)
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, T. V. Raman, 2007/09/08
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, David Kastrup, 2007/09/09
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Davis Herring, 2007/09/10
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/08
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/09
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2007/09/11
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/12
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/07
- Re: .emacs-settings.el,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Juri Linkov, 2007/09/06
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/06
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Tom Tromey, 2007/09/06
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Juri Linkov, 2007/09/07
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Tom Tromey, 2007/09/06
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Juri Linkov, 2007/09/06
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/07
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/07
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Tom Tromey, 2007/09/08
- Re: .emacs-settings.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/08