From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Relics of removed dir-locals-file-2 feature in pretest Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:08:51 +0200 Message-ID: <831skobvvw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <833757cqy7.fsf@gnu.org> <83tvxmbat5.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgiyb801.fsf@gnu.org> <83d149at4o.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511467757 29621 195.159.176.226 (23 Nov 2017 20:09:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 20:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kaushal Modi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 23 21:09:13 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eHxo4-0007C2-Eg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:09:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45909 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHxoB-00046Q-Kc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:09:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56818) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHxo4-00046J-3V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHxnz-0001YZ-9K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37325) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHxnz-0001YS-5v; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:09:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2134 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eHxnx-0005BX-Hd; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 15:09:03 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Kaushal Modi on Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:34:07 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220410 Archived-At: > From: Kaushal Modi > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:34:07 +0000 > Cc: Emacs developers > > We could remove the defconst, but just removing it is not enough, > because that would also remove its doc string. So we will have to do > something else in order to keep that special file name documented > (e.g., so that "M-x apropos-documentation" would find it). I'm not > sure we should invest such an effort: after all, what's there does > work, so why fix that which ain't broken? > > .. because the documentation is incorrect. The dir-locals-file-2 variable is useless at this point. Which part of it is incorrect? > I am volunteering to remove references to dir-locals-file-2 everywhere and mention the "-2.el" file instead in > dir-locals-file doc-string and other places where dir-locals-file-2 is currently mentioned. Thank you for volunteering, but I'm not yet sure we should do that.