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William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

> Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com> writes:

>> My vote is for ~/elisp, because it's short and because it doesn't
>> presume any knowledge of the user's personal directory structure.
>> They can always change it in their .emacs.

The directory name is needed before .emacs or
<user-personal-lisp-hierarchy>/.options.el is read.

>   I think ~/elisp is a poor choice if there is ever going to be anything
> but lisp code in the directory.  I thought there would be etc and
> info dirs in there as well.

In beta13, it is hardcoded to be `~/.xemacs/', however in beta14 it
will be selectable via configure (thanks Martin).  The configure
option is in beta13, but isn't connected to anything yet.

