From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@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 21:20:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mweknrxp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6hha4s2rcj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> 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.
From my POV, the .dire-locals.el facility has some serious
limitations, and this one is one of them. Kludging over it will never
cut it, we will promptly need to apply more kludges on top of that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-14 18:20 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 [this message]
2014-05-14 18:29 ` Glenn Morris
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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