From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A unified project root interface Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:23:08 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87a9q8pjeb.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <20130309174419.6e1cadb4@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363114412 29126 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2013 18:53:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:53:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 12 19:53:54 2013 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 1UFUKc-0007Yc-E7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:53:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55833 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFUKG-000090-1c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFUGb-0004Cd-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFUAc-0008VW-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:44:36 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54591) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFTsS-00030I-BW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:24:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UFTsm-0004jH-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from pool-72-70-84-108.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([72.70.84.108]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by pool-72-70-84-108.bstnma.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:25:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-72-70-84-108.bstnma.east.verizon.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/aKJ8H1cL+1Wu3FMr2F+Wn9w/KM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:157794 Archived-At: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:38:12 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: SM> As mentioned .dir-local.el often acts as a project root, but it can also SM> appear in sub-directories of a project, so it's not sufficient. SM> It should at least be augmented so that some .dir-locals.el can be SM> flagged as "non-root". I think it's simple to add a "root" property to .dir-locals.el. If it exists, stop searching. It's backwards compatible (unlike a non-root flag, IIUC) and doesn't require new libraries or variables, just a guard in the search code. Ted