From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el shadows top-level .dir-locals.el
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:00:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy5c56rxi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u7ppxh5ilc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:04:31 -0400")
> lisp/gnus has this vital .dir-locals.el:
> ((emacs-lisp-mode . ((show-trailing-whitespace . t))))
> (Which seems like personal preference to me.)
I tend to agree, tho it might actually reflect a coding convention used
for all of Gnus code.
> Anyway, this prevents the actually-has-useful-content
> (log-edit-rewrite-fixes etc) top-level Emacs .dir-locals.el from
> being seen.
Indeed (I didn't notice it because I always commit from a vc-dir buffer
showing the whole of `emacs' rather than a particular subdirectory).
> The simplest solution seems not to have lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el in the
> Emacs repo. (Rather than duplicating all the top-level content into the
> Gnus one, or implementing .dir-locals inheritance, desirable though that
> might be.)
I'll let the Gnus people decide what they prefer in the short term, but
dir-locals inheritance would be very welcome.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-26 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-26 17:04 lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el shadows top-level .dir-locals.el Glenn Morris
2013-04-26 19:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-05-01 0:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-05-05 4:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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