From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: indent-tabs-mode in dir-locals Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:51:16 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <8763kpo57t.fsf@jurta.org> References: <1ik59b527r.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87tz8cht3i.fsf@jurta.org> <4o3afujtyb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231456101 11169 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2009 23:08:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 23:08:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 09 00:09:33 2009 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 1LL3zx-00083m-BL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:09:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37270 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LL3yh-0001JP-FI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:07:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LL3xw-00011U-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LL3xv-00011H-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59694 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LL3xu-00011E-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from relay03.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.201]:58745) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LL3xs-0004Pu-6p; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:07:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay03.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LL3xp-000EH1-W5; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:06:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4o3afujtyb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:35:40 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: c2436a487120708c9e0f2b31fdd4cc45 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 6682 [Jan 08 2009] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:107712 Archived-At: >>> I had believed the unwritten rule till now was "respect whatever the >>> file currently uses" (which there should be a setting for; but that's >>> a wishlist item). >> >> The problem is that this rule is still unwritten ;) > > I already had a local hack based on a mode-hook. Now it is broken > thanks to dir-locals over-riding it. Anyway, I've just edited my local > copy of dir-locals (making it kind of pointless). Some modes set it explicitly to nil (e.g. texinfo-mode). So the global unconditional indent-tabs-mode in .dir-locals.el currently breaks these modes, because mode settings are applied before file-local settings. Maybe we should set (indent-tabs-mode . t) only for c-mode and emacs-lisp-mode? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/