On 19 October 2005 at 10:47, Peter S Galbraith wrote: | Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > * Niels Möller gives a long reply, making his arguments clearer.
I read that one on the web, having dropped off the CC and must say that I also agree with Niels' points :) | The content of /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ files should be limited to the | autoloads and defgroups that Emacs would ship with by default if the | packaged files were included in Emacs in the first place, no more. Sounds fine too. | Niels is completely right in my view (Sorry Dirk). Nobody would be | adding personal preferences to mode hooks in these files. I have no particular attachment to this. 50octave.el exists only because another Nils kindly sent me a stanza which I included (and for which, as I recall, I only needed to standardize the autoload line): * Includes two newer octave-{mod,inf} files and add an elisp startup file /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50octave.el (thanks to Nils Naumann) -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 1 Nov 1997 17:13:31 -0500 This was long before any emacsen policies, so if it is time now to clean this up, let's by all means do it, Thanks, Dirk -- Statistics: The (futile) attempt to offer certainty about uncertainty. -- Roger Koenker, 'Dictionary of Received Ideas of Statistics'