From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Directory-local variables?
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:05:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k59iplwj.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LHQIP-0006Jt-I7@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:09:09 -0500")
> It seems to me that the most precise and unambiguous term is
> "directory-local file variables". It is based on the standard term
> "file variables" as defined in the node (info "(emacs) File Variables")
> and "directory-local" says that their scope is limited to the specified
> directory.
>
> Since a directory is _less_ "local" than a single file,
> perhaps "directory-wide file variables" would be better.
The package dir-locals from http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/dir-locals.el
(that we tried to follow and reimplement in Emacs) uses the following term in
its docstrings and comments: "Directory-wide file-local variables". We could
use the same in Emacs.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-30 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-28 17:29 Directory-local variables? Richard M Stallman
2008-12-28 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-29 0:30 ` Juri Linkov
2008-12-29 4:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-29 22:09 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-29 22:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-30 0:05 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-12-29 22:09 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-30 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-31 12:29 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-03 0:46 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-07 0:45 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-12 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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