From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Allowing .dir-locals-N.el Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:01:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87egg42pgp.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446753849 28566 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2015 20:04:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 20:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , Artur Malabarba To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 05 21:03:59 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuQlK-0002sx-Vh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:03:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35066 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuQlK-000056-K3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:03:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuQlF-0008W7-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:03:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuQlD-00067M-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:03:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yk0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c07::235]:33564) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuQlC-00067I-SP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:03:50 -0500 Original-Received: by ykdv3 with SMTP id v3so61784704ykd.0 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 12:03:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date:message-id:references :user-agent:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type; bh=lHsm3PiRpEYNt11a0pUH1i417nZ77uIhho4Ybtqf+Tk=; b=vfw8Wv7/Mrhf0nzoEninmPSlWOHtefqia1MlQhJ64cK7Zt02by8etsnks1eDoOHntf foly3FQWy0h7gEwPLa3Kuih5Xu1+0deM13SrHadLw1dU7OttsTfSHiRsb6ABbvBAdqQ5 N3Ml2PGHpM8Ap2X+qn7UWx5g7Woo7mEMI5JXPvxLXFt90naTVdGp1POGz5KeV8duJ2P7 am7/atva+gMYtoDtjO7nEOCsNDyQLC8h0g3pGdQeHrmuRaT8eS8v6mJM/y00hNJ/I0dA e6ksn9Oa1590/AbOJPcwkhpHH/OVMjFfiTVNONmkiBeE3hT2mJJTjHf7jAVHiD0rKres s1xQ== X-Received: by 10.31.52.214 with SMTP id b205mr9061918vka.122.1446753830458; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 12:03:50 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Hermes-2.local (74.sub-70-192-3.myvzw.com. [70.192.3.74]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y66sm5756293vky.12.2015.11.05.12.03.49 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 05 Nov 2015 12:03:49 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Hermes-2.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1DD1348EC0B6; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 15:03:48 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87egg42pgp.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:52:54 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Artur Malabarba , Ted Zlatanov X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4002:c07::235 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193332 Archived-At: >>>>> Ted Zlatanov writes: > That seems really complicated for every use case I can imagine. Why not just > look for `.dir-locals*.el' and sort lexicographically? That degrades > gracefully to the current state of things. > > Otherwise you're building an ELisp facility to load files to augment ELisp > options, and you may as well just use ELisp. That's an awfully good point. I guess lexicographic makes the most sense, and is what /etc/rc.d has been doing for ages. John