Re: Files that begin with a period

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:03:27 +0200
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Sixteen months ago we had a longish thread about introducing a new
> function to help defaulting configuration files to .emacs.d (and
> changing the name of `user-emacs-directory'):
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00755.html
> 
> I have an old patch with the following:
> 
> --- lisp/subr.el        13 Jun 2007 00:03:28 -0000      1.555
> +++ lisp/subr.el        25 Jun 2007 13:13:33 -0000
> @@ -2042,5 +2042,5 @@
>  (put 'cl-assertion-failed 'error-message "Assertion failed")
> 
> -(defconst user-emacs-directory
> +(defconst user-data-directory

I'm okay with this change, but I think we shouldn't rename the
constant.  There's no need to, really, and doing so introduces
gratuitous back-compatibility problems.