From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Checking in files with trailing white space Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 14:55:38 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5702E2DA.80904@cs.ucla.edu> References: <56F038E3.2080003@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459807003 8972 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2016 21:56:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 23:56:34 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1anCU2-0005IJ-62 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 23:56:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anCU1-0008RZ-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 17:56:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50782) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anCTp-0008RT-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 17:56:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anCTm-0004ie-IK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 17:56:17 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:55159) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anCTm-0004ia-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 17:56:14 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B59A816125D; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 14:56:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id gMw6sJpn4hjX; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 14:55:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 710CD161261; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 14:55:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id ASNsufs-5sDm; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 14:55:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 56C4216125D; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 14:55:38 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202720 Archived-At: On 04/04/2016 01:05 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > I've never played around with local variables in text files. Can these > local variables be put into a dot file of some kind? Yes, you can modify .dir-locals.el. But that's intended for generic rules, not for specific files that are exceptions. Generally file-local variables are a better match for quirks like this. It should be pretty easy; e.g., see the file 'test/manual/etags/html-src/software.html'.