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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Date: 12 Jul 1997 21:36:01 -0700
In-Reply-To: Noah Friedman's message of "Sat, 12 Jul 1997 18:00:12 -0700"
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Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com> writes:

> >> Why not use ~/.emacs.d/... and ~/.xemacs.d/... as the directories?
> >
> >Noah, come on!  Blow us away!
[...]
> I'd say there are probably three categories of people who use emacs, with
> regard to having personal lisp code.  
> 
>     1) Users who don't have any, for which a personal lisp directory is
>        harmless but unnecessary.
> 
>     2) Users who have a small number of programs they use with a single
>        version of emacs or xemacs; they may or may not byte-compile them.
> 
>     3) nerds who use multiple versions or variants of emacs and need
>        separate directories for bytecode, etc.
> 
> The suggestion to use ~/elisp or ~/personal-lisp satisfies two out of the
> three categories.  The third can be counted on to keep doing what they've
> always been doing.

  Most definitely.

> 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.

  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.

-Bill P.

