On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 01:48:57PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Robert Schiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'd like to make the proposal to invent dirlist.d/ directory support into > > aclocal. Currently the macro search path can be modified by a user by > > adding > > the repective path or a pattern that includes this path to the dirlist file > > contained in ACDIR. This is a very useful feature if you have some > > additional > > software installed on your system you want to be considered on the search. > > Debian's run-parts tool, that runs all of the scripts in a > particular directory, limits the files that it runs to those > whose names consist entirely of upper and lower case letters, > digits, underscores, and hyphens. This is useful because it > avoids running "scripts" that are actually backups (*~) or Emacs > auto-save files (#*#) or revision-control (*,v) or whatever. I > think that this is a generally good idea that any similar > feature, such as the one you're proposing, should take into > consideration.
I have no strong opinion on whether this is desired or not. Thus if this idea is generally accepted, I could easily add such a check. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."
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