Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> I prefer ..h, too. Does anyone object? > > I can accept "..h", but I prefer ".in.h", so as to remind the substitution of > autoconf macros. > > You need to ask the Emacs maintainers whether they can accept file names with > two dots in them (DOS, VMS portability problems).
I could live with ".in.h". However, I fear that if we depend on an "ok" from the Emacs maintainers, then neither "..h" nor ".in.h" will fly. Currently, no file name in emacs contains more than one ".". In that case, it may be worthwhile to consider the ".hin" suffix, since it has long been used in the context of autoconf, since config.h.in isn't sufficiently portable to DOS 8.3. The autoconf documentation mentions the name in suggesting this: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h:config.hin]) but that has the same problem as Paul's .eh: no automatic editor support, at least not in emacs.
