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Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:46:10 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I think this proposal is really about code snippets that people would
> otherwise just cut and paste into their .emacs file. The average
> user's .emacs often winds up containing mostly code they found
> somewhere and use without really understanding it. Dropping each
> snippit in its own file would be a big help if the user ever did need
> to debug some problem with his init, or if he decided one day to
> actually learn elisp.
I'm far from convinced it's better for people to drop random chunks of
configuration into separate files rather than all in the .emacs file.
If you're talking about downloading random files containing
configuration code (so the user doesn't have to create a file, inventing
a file name for it), then maybe that could make sense, but I haven't
seen such files very much, and I suspect many of them could easily be
turned either into themes or into packages installable via package.el.
Stefan
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, (continued)
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/04
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Chad Brown, 2011/03/05
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Mike Mattie, 2011/03/06
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/07
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Chad Brown, 2011/03/07
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/07
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Dimitri Fontaine, 2011/03/08
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Chad Brown, 2011/03/08
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/07
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, PJ Weisberg, 2011/03/07
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Chong Yidong, 2011/03/08
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Julien Danjou, 2011/03/08
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/08
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Chong Yidong, 2011/03/09
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/08
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Jan D., 2011/03/09
- Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir, Christoph Scholtes, 2011/03/09