scs@m2-net.UUCP (Steve C. Simmons) (05/29/88)
One problem that a lot of nice programs have is the proliferation of .files. Elm has .elmrc, 3 .alias files, .filter files, and so forth. Eventually your home directory fills up (well...) with this crap, and soon enough there will be name hits. Taking a cue from PicoSpan and the recent posting of pcomm, I have modified elm 1.7 beta to look for and use a .elm directory. All of the utilities that used to look in $HOME for their init files now look first in $HOME/.elm, then in $HOME. Thus old files still work, but new ones can be consolidated into one place and keep the clutter down. The changes involved hacking (in a minor way) about 20 sourcefiles. As far as I can tell all the utilities work, but since I only use a few of them it's difficult to tell for sure if everythings covered. Let me know if (a) a new persons taken up responsibility for elm, and (b) this would be of general use. I don't usually read this newsgroup, so mail to scs@lokkur.uucp would be appropriate.
dave@csd1.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen,EMS E380,5133,) (05/30/88)
From article <1752@m2-net.UUCP>, by scs@m2-net.UUCP (Steve C. Simmons): > Taking a cue from PicoSpan and the recent posting of pcomm, I have > modified elm 1.7 beta to look for and use a .elm directory. All Elm 2.0 does this. Dave Rasmussen c/o Computing Services Division @ U of WI - Milwaukee Internet: dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu Uucp: uwvax!uwmcsd1!uwmcsd4!dave {o,o} Csnet: dave%uwmcsd4@uwm Bellnet: +1 (414) 229-5133 \u/ ICBM: 43 4 58 N/ 87 55 52 W Usnail: 3200 N Cramer #E380, Milw WI 53211