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: Directory-local variables? Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:05:48 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87k59iplwj.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87ocyveruq.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230596273 23831 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2008 00:17:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 30 01:18:58 2008 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 1LHSK1-0006AM-8k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:18:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49389 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LHSIn-0007fV-E5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:17:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LHSIi-0007fQ-W8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:17:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LHSIf-0007fE-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:17:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45119 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LHSIf-0007fB-Cy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:17:33 -0500 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]:3966) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LHSIb-0000S0-Hx; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LHSIX-00042P-Al; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:17:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:09:09 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 1678f860418e8694a064f05d5e21ded6 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 6595 [Dec 29 2008] 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: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:107404 Archived-At: > 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/