Re: status of dir-vars or dir-locals inclusion in emacs?

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

  >     +  The first approach is to put a special file in the root directory of
  >     +a project.  When opening a local file, Emacs will search for this file
  >     +and, if the file exists, Emacs will apply local variable settings from
  >     +the file to the new buffer.  (This search is skipped for remote
  >     +files.)
  > 
  > 1. Please stick to the present tense all the time in documentation
  > unless some other tense is mandatory.  So please say "Emacs searches".
  > 
  > Please look for other places in your text where this rule might apply.
  > 
  > 2. It took me a couple of seconds to realize why the word "local" is
  > there and what it means, since in this context "local" usually means
  > "buffer-local".  I suggest using only the word "remote" and avoiding
  > use of "local" as its antonym.
  > 
  > 3. Please avoid the passive voice, so please write "If the file is
  > remote, Emacs doesn't do this search, because it would be too slow."
  > 
  >     +  Emacs looks for files named @file{emacs-settings.el},
  >     +@file{.emacs-settings.el}, or @file{.emacs-settings}, in that order.
  > 
  > ...and looks for them in the current directory, its parent, and so on
  > up the directory hierarchy.

Can we please reduce the number of the files that are looked up from 3
to 2?  
Do we need both .emacs-settings.el and .emacs-settings? IMHO one of
them should be enough.