From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Relics of removed dir-locals-file-2 feature in pretest
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:34:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY1h_9G8pMS=xaT_6pfwEiv-Ztzvg0wAZVkWz-_0zDkogw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d149at4o.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 10:54 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> We could remove the defconst, but just removing it is not enough,
> because that would also remove its doc string. So we will have to do
> something else in order to keep that special file name documented
> (e.g., so that "M-x apropos-documentation" would find it). I'm not
> sure we should invest such an effort: after all, what's there does
> work, so why fix that which ain't broken?
>
.. because the documentation is incorrect. The dir-locals-file-2 variable
is useless at this point.
I am volunteering to remove references to dir-locals-file-2 everywhere and
mention the "-2.el" file instead in dir-locals-file doc-string and other
places where dir-locals-file-2 is currently mentioned.
> --
Kaushal Modi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-23 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-12 13:58 Relics of removed dir-locals-file-2 feature in pretest Kaushal Modi
2017-11-21 19:56 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-21 20:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-21 21:11 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-22 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-22 15:58 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-22 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-22 16:28 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-23 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-23 17:34 ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2017-11-23 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-27 14:57 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-27 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-27 17:04 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-27 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-27 17:50 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-28 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-28 17:34 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-28 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-28 17:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-11-28 20:02 ` Davis Herring
2017-11-28 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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