Re: .emacs-settings.el

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:08:00 -0600 Tom Tromey <address@hidden> wrote: 

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.

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

I think Emacs should not default to getting default settings from a
hidden file in the path, personally, but it should be possible via
customization to choose that behavior.  I wouldn't expect Emacs to do
that by default, that's all.

Ted