[slime-devel] Re: Towards 1.0?

[Bill_Clementson at peoplesoft.com]

Luke Gorrie <luke at bluetail.com> writes:

> Bill_Clementson at 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