Re: It's Huntin' Season
>>"Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <psg@mixed.dyndns.org> writes:
Peter> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
>> >>"Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> writes:
>>
Peter> Emacs policy dictates that elisp files that are eval'ed at
Peter> Emacs startup go under /etc/emacs. However, these aren't
Peter> necessarily configuration files
>>
>> Say what?
>>
>> When I load an emacs start up file, typically the behacviour
>> of emacs changes. For example, auc tex, cperl, psgml, et. al. replace
>> the default handling of certain files with wildly different
>> behaviour.
Peter> The key word being 'typically' where I said 'aren't
Peter> necessarily'.
I'll bite. If thew file is not changing the behaviour of the
program, I can safely remove it and notice no difference, right? So
what the heck is it doing there in the first place?
Peter> Certainly some or perhaps most Emacs startup files override some other
Peter> Emacs mode, but some startup files simply tell Emacs where to find new
Peter> commands (auto-loads), or associate a file extension previously unknown
Peter> to Emacs with a new major mode.
The latter definitely changes program behaviour, and certainly
the autoloads can be argued to do so. Yes, the change in behaviour
is likely to be benign, but change it is.
And thus the policy comes into play.
manoj
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