From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sergio Pokrovskij <sergio.pokrovskij@gmail.com>
Cc: 17489@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17489: 24.3; Major mode spec in .dir-locals.el breaks dired
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 21:17:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oaz0ns1r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbt846jk.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: Sergio Pokrovskij <sergio.pokrovskij@gmail.com>
> Cc: 17489@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 00:24:47 +0700
>
> Eli> IOW, why isn't that .dir-locals.el setting of yours not a
> Eli> cockpit error?
>
> Because there is no appropriate means to impose a reasonable
> condition. Just the "nil" or a major mode name. It may happen
> that I do not know the a-priori mode; actually it is mode that I
> would like to set.
Why would someone want to apply a fixed major mode to all the files in
a directory?
> ,----
> | Whenever Emacs visits any file IN THAT DIRECTORY or any of its
> | subdirectories, it will apply the directory-local variables
> | specified in `.dir-locals.el', AS THOUGH THEY HAD BEEN DEFINED AS
> | FILE-LOCAL VARIABLES for that file ...
> `----
Are you saying that "." is not a file?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-14 18:17 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
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 [this message]
2014-05-15 0:39 ` Sergio Pokrovskij
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