From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Allowing symlinked dir-locals files?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 20:01:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735r91d73.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org> (raw)
Hi everyone,
I was trying to share some localized customization by symlinking a
.dir-locals.el file across directories, but it doesn't seem to work.
Looking at the current files.el:4330, we explicitly check if the file is
a regular file. And looking at the FIXME comment just above I concur
that checking just for file-directory-p should be sufficient for proper
behavior.
However I suspect that the rationale was to be proper as well as "safe",
as this could be used to make emacs read/interpret another file if the
symlink is under the control of a VCS or via a shared-filesystem.
I wonder if that's all we can really do?
I currently hardlinked the files and bypassed the problem. I can think a
couple of alternative solutions, however I have a series of projects
that share indentation/editor settings and I've found that using such
setup makes it more discoverable.
Thoughts?
next reply other threads:[~2021-08-16 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-16 18:01 Yuri D'Elia [this message]
2021-08-16 18:10 ` Allowing symlinked dir-locals files? Stefan Monnier
2021-08-16 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-16 18:25 ` Yuri D'Elia
2021-08-16 18:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-09-18 14:10 ` Yuri D'Elia
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=8735r91d73.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org \
--to=wavexx@thregr.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).