From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Appending items to variables in .dir-locals.el Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 21:40:23 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <867d1wpp20.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <875yhhrwvs.fsf@gmail.com> <8735clneln.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9310"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: Thuna , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 21 21:01:35 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ob4yT-0002Iw-L6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 21:01:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49972 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ob4yS-0005ob-Nm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:01:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52432) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ob4vD-0003up-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from relay2-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.194]:39865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ob4v1-0002Gb-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:58:08 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A1D1940003; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:57:46 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <8735clneln.fsf@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:36:52 +0000") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.194; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay2-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:295941 Archived-At: >> I think it would be good to be able to add items to variables that hold >> lists in `.dir-locals.el'. Maybe with the special form `(append >> VARIABLE . ITEMS))'? Considering `auto-mode-alist' has its own special >> form, I think the need for this already exists. > > While not exactly what you want, you can add a lisp expression and have > it evaluated to the same effect. But yes, a proper feature would be > nice to have. Isn't (eval . (add-to-list 'VARIABLE ITEMS)) already short enough?