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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: sergio.pokrovskij@gmail.com, 17489@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17489: 24.3; Major mode spec in .dir-locals.el breaks dired
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 14:29:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5dsiocrz7e.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mweknrxp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 14 May 2014 21:20:02 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
>> Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 13:38:20 -0400
>> Cc: 17489@debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> Although we could probably treat this specific example specially, and
>> just say that it never (?) makes sense for a dir-local `mode' to apply to
>> non-file buffers.
>
> Arguably, it makes no sense to apply the same fixed mode to all the
> files in a directory, either.

I'm sure it makes sense to the OP.

Dired buffers have buffer-file-name = nil so IMO can quite reasonably be
viewed as not visiting files.





  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-14 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-14  7:14 bug#17489: 24.3; Major mode spec in .dir-locals.el breaks dired Sergio Pokrovskij
2014-05-14 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-14 16:56   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-14 17:24   ` Sergio Pokrovskij
2014-05-14 17:31     ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-14 17:38       ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-14 18:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-14 18:29           ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2014-05-14 18:40             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-14 19:01               ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-14 19:38                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-14 19:40                   ` Glenn Morris
2022-02-22 14:29       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-05-14 18:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-15  0:39       ` Sergio Pokrovskij

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