From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:00:27 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: References: <60282.128.165.123.18.1189002441.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <87k5r350o5.fsf@jurta.org> <87veanixv5.fsf@cadilhac.name> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189112723 29586 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2007 21:05:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:05:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 23:05:23 2007 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 1ITOXL-0005Dg-TV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:05:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITOXK-0008I5-5q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:05:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITOXG-0008Hr-F5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITOXF-0008Hc-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITOXF-0008HY-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:05:09 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITOXF-0007DZ-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:05:09 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ITOX8-0005xv-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:05:02 +0200 Original-Received: from c-24-14-57-89.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([24.14.57.89]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:05:02 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-24-14-57-89.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:05:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-14-57-89.hsd1.il.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vAKrp82X13EGIFr3gH9uN+JkgJw= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:78035 Archived-At: On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:39:48 +0000 (UTC) "Robert J. Chassell" wrote: RJC> I'm ok with dir-locals.el or any other name, but in general it should RJC> not be an .el file, right? It's just some settings that will not be RJC> actual Lisp code. Maybe dir-locals.elp for "emacs lisp properties"? RJC> My understanding is that an Emacs Lisp file is specified to end with RJC> .el Sure. RJC> herring@lanl.gov says the file in question is in Emacs Lisp, albeit RJC> `not a file of arbitrary Lisp': RJC> ... it is not a file of arbitrary Lisp, but rather contains a set RJC> of buffer-local variables to set in the buffers visiting files it RJC> affects, subject to the normal risk-checking. RJC> My understanding is that when he says `not a file of arbitrary Lisp RJC> ... a set of buffer-local variables to set in the buffers visiting RJC> files', he means no defuns. Only setq's are permitted. I thought it would look more like the file-local specification :) If it's not Lisp, we can give it pretty much any extension, but .elp would probably be least surprising and shortest. Ted