From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:21:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <200811232121.mANLLDaU023870@mothra.ics.uci.edu> References: <5f0ff9220811130629t505badf9kb1bcc380df89a08f@mail.gmail.com> <87ej13h73g.fsf@jurta.org> <200811222020.mAMKKBcY020496@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <87zljrm7yh.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <200811230810.mAN8A6fp022636@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <87ljvayb18.fsf@jurta.org> <200811231210.mANCAEv7023193@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <200811231716.mANHGBbj023513@mothra.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227475305 7917 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2008 21:21:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:21:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Tom Tromey , emacs-devel@gnu.org, "T.V. Raman" To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 23 22:22:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L4MPg-0006ck-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:22:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44486 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4MOX-0001vP-4Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:21:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4MOT-0001vK-17 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:21:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L4MOR-0001v1-Hq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:21:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56869 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L4MOR-0001uy-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:21:23 -0500 Original-Received: from barrelv2.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.114]:42026) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4MOQ-0001YI-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:21:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by barrelv2.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id mANLLD7k028356; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:21:14 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by mothra.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id mANLLDaU023870; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:21:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:45:41 +0100") Original-Lines: 14 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: mANLLD7k028356 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106044 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 18:16, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > > > And the reason emacs should care about that is... ? > > Because you're not stopping the user from changing the > .dir-settings.el name, just making all the issue more brittle. I > thought the reason you insisted on having a hardcoded .dir-settings.el > was to protect users. Brittle is to allow the user to break something just by using a normal way of changing settings "setq". We have gone over this too many times already...