Re: .emacs-settings.el

[David Kastrup]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:04:30 +0200 address@hidden (Michaël Cadilhac) wrote: 
>
> MC> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>>> I would not make it hidden, to avoid surprises: project.el
>
> MC> So sad the features of project.el will not be usable in the lisp/
> MC> directory of Emacs, then :-)
>
> I think surprising the user is a bad thing, so I'd rather not have a
> hidden file.  The penalty of name conflicts is not as bad as using
> hidden data to influence an application's behavior.

Uh, you are arguing against _any_ file with a .* name right now: all
of them are used to influence an application's behavior without
cluttering directory listings.

So I don't buy this argument.

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