From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Dan Connolly <dckc@madmode.com>
Cc: 46122@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46122: 25.2; changes to .dir-locals.el are not picked up when .dir-locals.el is a symlink
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:01:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6afmm9k.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2YivZ3UQUFLwUO1phDi+7BmuRtqEH=QHCLcVpim8f+JsYdbg@mail.gmail.com> (Dan Connolly's message of "Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:47:21 -0600")
Dan Connolly <dckc@madmode.com> writes:
> 1. Create ~/projects/m/.dir-locals.el file to set tab-width to 4.
> 2. Visit ~/projects/m/xyz.c and verify that tabs use 4 spaces
> 3. mv ~/projects/m/.dir-locals.el to ~/.emacs.d/m-locals.el
> 4. ln -s ~/.emacs.d/m-locals.el ~/projects/m/.dir-locals.el
> 5. Change 4 6 in ~/.emacs.d/m-locals.el
> 6. in the xyz.c buffer, M-x revert-buffer
>
> expected result:
> 7. tabs use 6 spaces
>
> actual result:
> 7. no change; tabs still use 4 spaces
>
> work-around:
> (setq dir-locals-directory-cache nil) before step 6.
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)
I've now fixed this in Emacs 29.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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2021-01-26 21:47 bug#46122: 25.2; changes to .dir-locals.el are not picked up when .dir-locals.el is a symlink Dan Connolly
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