Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir

[Mike Mattie]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:06:16AM +0100, Jan D. wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov skrev 2011-03-08 22:38:
> > On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:59:51 -0500 Stefan Monnier<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >
> > SM>  If you're really talking about configuration code rather than packages,
> > SM>  then I tend to assume that people whose .emacs is so large as to need
> > SM>  modularization can figure out which kind of modularization they want 
> > and
> > SM>  implement (or copy&paste) the corresponding loop to load the various 
> > files.
> >
> > Yes, but you're assuming managing configuration modules in monolithic
> > Emacs Lisp is the best way.  Give us something simple and easy to manage
> > the loop at the filesystem level, so we don't have to write it
> > ourselves.
> >
> > SM>  I'm not even sure why you'd want to "modularize" in this way: my .emacs
> > SM>  was fairly large but splitting it into separate files never seemed like
> > SM>  a good way to help, since I'd then have to figure out how to make C-s
> > SM>  and M-/ find matches in neighboring files.  Instead I "split" it with
> > SM>  outline-minor-mode.
> >
> > For me it works better.  I like small files; outline-minor-mode and
> > folding-mode don't work for me.  I suspect I'm not the only one.  See
> > the URLs above for a list of similar needs.
> >
> 
> As others have said, I was also suprised that dropping a .el-fil in 
> ~/emacs.d didn't load it by default.  My emacs is quite big and I'd love 
> to split it up.  Another thing I really would like is for customize to 
> save its stuff in its own file and not in my .emacs.  With a load-dir 
> this would be trivial.
> 
> There is a real need an packages isn't it.  Its like wanting a rowing 
> boat and told to use the latest battle ship instead.

Can you take a look at Grail http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Grail and see if
that meets your needs ? If you want to modularize your configuration it is
explicity designed to do so.

> 
>       Jan D.
>

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