Re: USER-INIT-DIRECTORY and all that jazz
Hrvoje Niksic writes:
sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr.
Preprocessor]) writes:
> Hrvoje> Micheal, is it possible to change the underlying
> Hrvoje> implementation and Lisp API, but still have `-u' work?
>
> I offered to do that further down in the same mail.
Great. Obviously I missed that part.
> Moiself> I can envision *replacing* -u by arguments along the lines
> Moiself> of "-user-init-file" and "-user-init-directory" for
> Moiself> ~/.emacs and ~/.xemacs, and providing something like -u
> Moiself> through that. How does that sound?
>
> So ...?
Huh?
I think that was the polite, understated moan of a man being
painfully stretched on the rack. :)
Why is init-file-user and -u such a big furball? Both are
atavisms from teh dark ages, and the docstring specifically
mentions .emacs so there's no reason it _has_ to work with
.xemacs, PACKAGEPATH and all that. Why can't it just be left
alone, working imperfectly, just it does now?