From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: tromey@redhat.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: project variable patch #2
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:13:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IUXqD-0007Dy-D7@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m38x7f4efp.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:16:58 -0600)
+ Emacs provides a way to specify local variable values per-project.
The term "project" is misleading for this. A project is an activity,
not a collection of code. Your project for this week could be to
add a new feature to Emacs, but the directory would not be for
your project, it would be for Emacs.
Let's call them "local variable values for a whole directory".
This means changing the node name, section title, and text.
Changing the function names is also called for.
+ This example shows some settings that would be appropriate for GCC.
"appropriate for the GCC source code".
("Appropriate for GCC" is ambiguous.)
Finally, a string key can
+be used to specify an alist which applies to a relative subdirectory
+in the project.
+
Please avoid the passive voice.
+ When reading settings from a file like this, Emacs automatically
...from this file...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-10 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-09 23:16 project variable patch #2 Tom Tromey
2007-09-10 1:13 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-09-10 2:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-10 18:07 ` Vagn Johansen
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