From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kaushal Modi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Relics of removed dir-locals-file-2 feature in pretest Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:34:07 +0000 Message-ID: References: <833757cqy7.fsf@gnu.org> <83tvxmbat5.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgiyb801.fsf@gnu.org> <83d149at4o.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="94eb2c1284949483f6055ea9d88a" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511458470 16860 195.159.176.226 (23 Nov 2017 17:34:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 23 18:34:24 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eHvOJ-0003vo-8S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:34:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45465 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHvOQ-0001cX-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:34:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHvOJ-0001cM-I9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:34:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHvOI-0001yW-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:34:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::230]:39312) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHvOH-0001vQ-BT; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:34:21 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-yw0-x230.google.com with SMTP id p65so1909621ywg.6; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 09:34:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=r1GskiIumZMrut7k0DxXbcZGquTCMCzYq4uU0hXI3fo=; b=cFzqIg8l8nCzEfWLYhIprtqfronihyDdnfGc3i9DmGwAp59gyuglKCXQw3I3TNQfzK yOEHgABCA2Uhh9XBBEywdv56IYHvzBE31NOy4eqA1l31pM2WLCkix1INw16AIQqGMGLT gPqEBWmL1MBEawuobAM609nrlg5VnnwYv639NxrMgRMQe32UJZ6Vg24kGTY6hM/8kV9U UyDpy1fMoLlYtcIhQdXEEAjpjvN6fvFsvN3JypY6aNmZ9m34dWlbkzW79kCEAkjm/BA7 4bMSb1d2ydEA+3tWVfFihQy+FFonKzwuU9kq+k4INN9/bvHTulI+1WfykmcdoNAEtA/T 6VqA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=r1GskiIumZMrut7k0DxXbcZGquTCMCzYq4uU0hXI3fo=; b=S82IB5XSjp2x/wVTWn4OEm3aZ1/PO32tzGv38DriHzt+kFG6CaYcxNNsYPZA5bdyuA S6OC7vynekO1mjJvpv5rON9B+S0AN1nTPNXlSS8ripirK9ETbQi59qlv19LxwD62I/jr qIKTUs3XpfQe2/BtDwnn7uLie5Aaj8nvHZfqJUdvX8PwxvLuLdXUULWFglErUJ1RP7re nq0+divASTnCYzz/Lhj8E1MqimZundMQYYUbJtrX6lL3TSydTvVXK/R+uVBI2v6rZHy+ vVo+3iAx4QIUURjpCzILasK5hANTOvCc+qSqqfB6rT0IbkjiA6TLVLkPzAQ6Ki+WoW9S /PNg== X-Gm-Message-State: AJaThX7XiGkFYthijDCycr+ZRLzPNy7IRLAFk1K/sdR5oNkRITvEWIXT y3CbqmgAf+zNJdtXDv8hjVZCFCwC9S81VKGLONs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMYYP33FlJD0bLkz0hHHwkxFrM4VMqANPSceIXoXdlpd6PV2A5cVQYUODyVwRcFnNt4KrTgvd5MAGt1enZdTFlM= X-Received: by 10.129.165.18 with SMTP id c18mr16395125ywh.484.1511458459646; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 09:34:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83d149at4o.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4002:c05::230 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220402 Archived-At: --94eb2c1284949483f6055ea9d88a Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 10:54 AM Eli Zaretskii 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 --94eb2c1284949483f6055ea9d88a Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 10:54 AM = Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrot= e:
We could remove the defconst, but just removing it is not enough,
because that would also remove its doc string.=C2=A0 So we will have to do<= br> something else in order to keep that special file name documented
(e.g., so that "M-x apropos-documentation" would find it).=C2=A0 = 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.=C2=A0

I am v= olunteering to remove references to dir-locals-file-2 everywhere and mentio= n the "-2.el" file instead in dir-locals-file doc-string and othe= r places where dir-locals-file-2 is currently mentioned.=C2=A0
--

Kaushal Modi

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