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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:07:02PM +0000, Robert Figura wrote:
> On Friday 13 August 2004 16:08, Pieter Lenaerts wrote:
> 
> > for some lisp plugins, the install instructions say to edit the ~/.emacs
> > file
> >
> > emacs doesn't make this file until user changes his default settings.
> >
> > does anybody know
> >
> >     1. if it's 'necessary' to edit .emacs
> 
> i think it would be nice smgl style.
> 
> > if yes: 2. if we want to edit system-wide in one config file, and which 
> > one
> > that is or  3. if there is a default config-file (which I failed to find)
> 
> pardon?
> you mean to find /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/default.el
> ?
> 
> > option 3 is no good imo, as do people in #emacs think: it would force us 
> > to
> > copy this default in every user directory, and edit this file in every 
> > user
> > directory every time a plugin is installed that wants this.
> 
> no. i think there should be an /etc/smgl.el (site-lisp instead of etc may 
> be 
> better though) which the user may include if he really wants to. if you 
> really want to do babysitting put an .emace file into /etc/skel. 
> 

This is the way to go, to me.  In /etc though, not /usr/share...  config
files belong in /etc.  And we should put a config file into /etc/skel if
emacs doesn't fall back to the site config (which it should), otherwise,
try to keep /etc/skel clean.

> > I'm pretty sure that we need option 2, but I'm totally lost in the
> > emacs-directories. who can point me out?
> 
> Regards
>  - Robert Figura
> 
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