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Re: .emacs-settings.el


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:08:00 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> "Juri" == Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

Juri> Since .emacs-settings.el is a confusing file name, what about a more
Juri> appropriate and shorter file name like .dir-vars.el or .dir-locals.el
Juri> or .project.el.

Could you say what you think is confusing about it?
Obviously I don't find it confusing.  

Ted> That's what I mean by "suprising" and "hidden."  Only a few
Ted> applications put such hidden settings files outside the home
Ted> directory, I can think only of the CVS .cvsignore and Subversion
Ted> .svn directories at the moment.

Yeah, it is intentionally supposed to be similar to .cvsignore or
.svn.  The hidden-ness, in my view, is a feature; some projects don't
like to "clutter" their top-level directories with things like this.
FWIW my precedent here is Eclipse, which makes .project and .settings
directories.

Tom




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