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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Two problems with directory-local variables
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 02:15:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1njyav9.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3c0xh44.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2018 17:45:31 +0200")

>>> but this entry in .dir-locals.el does not work:
>>> ((nil . ((eval '(message "hello")))))
>>
>> That is because the syntax is incorrect.  You want:
>>
>> ((nil . ((eval . (message "hello")))))
>>
>> or equivalently, without dotted pair syntax in the eval:
>>
>> ((nil . ((eval message "hello"))))
>
> Thanks!
>
> Actually, this is what `add-dir-local-variable' puts in .dir-locals.el,
> which looks a bit weird.

If you think there is a bug in add-dir-local-variable, please show a recipe
how did you get an incorrect setting.  When I tried, it correctly added

  ((nil
    (eval message "hello")))



  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-17 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-17  8:08 Two problems with directory-local variables Marcin Borkowski
2018-09-17  9:28 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-17 15:45   ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-09-17 23:15     ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2018-09-18  0:04       ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-18  0:19         ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-18  2:15           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-19 22:38             ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-20  1:42               ` Drew Adams
2018-09-20 20:59                 ` Juri Linkov

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