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Subject: Re: Expanding directories in `load-path'
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From: Tonny Madsen <tma@nettest.dk>
Date: 10 Jul 1997 15:26:03 +0200
In-Reply-To: Colin Rafferty's message of 08 Jul 1997 11:16:54 -0400
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Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic writes:
> 
> > Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:
> >> ~/.emacs: FILE, loaded at startup.
> >> 
> >> ~/.emacs: DIRECTORY, used by various packages.
> >> 
> >> ~/.xemacs: FILE, loaded at startup.
> >> 
> >> ~/.xemacs: DIRECTORY, used by various packages.

Why not use ~/.emacs.d/... and ~/.xemacs.d/... as the directories?
That way, we are backward compatible and it looks a lot like the
directory structure imposed on many of the system configuration
directories these days: /etc/init.d/... etc

Of cause, I'm biased, as this is the setup I currently use! With files
in ~/.emacs.d/... for each sub-system (like vm, gnus, efs, html,...),
each emacs version (emacs-19.34, xemacs-19.15, ...), each domain and
host I use and a number of other factors. It does look a little
complicated at first, but it is very easy to extend...

/tonny

