Luke Gorrie luke@bluetail.com writes:
Bill_Clementson@peoplesoft.com writes:
I use Win32 and have plenty of directories in my home directory that
start
with "dot". There's no reason to make a special exception for Win32
Sounds good to me. But it begs the question: why are we already making an exception of ~/_swank.lsp vs. ~/.swank.lisp for the init file? Anyone?
Probably because of:
1. Historical Windows/Emacs reasons (older versions of NTEmacs required that the .emacs file be named "_emacs"; however, current versions allow you to use either "_emacs" or ".emacs" as the default initialization file name.) 2, Because some brain-dead Win32 programs won't let you create a file that starts with dot (Windows Explorer is a prime example). However, Emacs on Win32 will let you do this and if you're using slime, you're using Emacs, right? :-) In fact, now even notepad on Win32 will allow you to create files with a dot at the beginning of their name.
Bill, is there some code we can snarf from your blog to make installation on Win32 easier? We should at least fold your instructions into the manual.
Sure, feel free to grab anything that is useful. I think that most of my slime-related weblog postings are linked to from the "SLIME HOW-TO" page on CLiki (http://www.cliki.net/SLIME-HOWTO).
- Bill