Re: Configuration problem

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hallo Michele,

Michele Dondi <blazar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote:
>> Michele Dondi <blazar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> then it starts loading .slc files. At a certain point
>>> I'm left with "loading /usr/share/jed/lib/modeinfo.slc" - However I'm
>>> in Emacs mode with the default colors, which means that my ~/.jedrc is
>>> NEVER read.
>>
>> Do you have a directory ~/.jed? From
>> /usr/share/doc/jed/README.Debian-startup:
>>
>>   * ~/.jed/jed.rc                  % user config file (if it exists),
>>                                    % skipped with the -n command line option)
>>     or ~/.jedrc                    % if ~/.jed/ doesnot exist
>
> I have BOTH:
>
> icard:~ [22:30:58]$ ls -rl .jed*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 blazar users 10155 Jan 11  2005 .jedrc~
> -rw-r--r-- 1 blazar users 10245 Oct 27 11:57 .jedrc
>
> .jed:
> total 788
> -rw------- 1 blazar users 786534 Oct 28 22:29 recent_db
> drwxr-xr-x 3 blazar users   4096 Dec  5  2002 lib
> -rw-r--r-- 1 blazar users   5112 Mar  8  2002 home-lib.sl

So you must move your .jedrc to ~/.jed/jed.rc. The Filesystem Hierarchy
Standard recommends to place only one entry in the home directory.

,----[ /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/fhs/fhs-2.3.txt.gz ]
|User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the user's
|home directory in a file that starts with the '.' character (a "dot file"). If
|an application needs to create more than one dot file then they should be
|placed in a subdirectory with a name starting with a '.' character, (a "dot
|directory"). In this case the configuration files should not start with the '.'
|character. [11]
`----

So Debian uses ~/.jed/jed.rc if the directory ~/.jed exists and doesn't
look for ~/.jedrc in this case. For backward compatibility the fallback
to ~/.jedrc is provided, but I don't would swear that it stays.

Bye, Jörg.
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