From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: files.el: Patch to make project-settings optional/customizable Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:23:02 -0700 Message-ID: References: <5f0ff9220811130629t505badf9kb1bcc380df89a08f@mail.gmail.com> <87y6zn4pqw.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <200811131607.mADG71u6010167@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <200811131619.mADGJukm010206@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <87prkz4kgh.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: Tom Tromey NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226604306 12985 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2008 19:25:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:25:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "T.V. Raman" , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 13 20:26:07 2008 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 1L0hpL-0001mj-Ey for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:26:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52188 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hoD-0005Pp-4D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:24:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hmj-0004u8-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:23:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hmi-0004tu-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:23:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59651 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0hmi-0004th-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:23:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:60558) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0hmg-00059d-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:23:20 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mADJN5gR031612; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mADJN4Ro005764; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-13-92.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.13.92]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mADJN3ku005676; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8F7023786E3; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:23:02 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <87prkz4kgh.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu\, 13 Nov 2008 12\:14\:22 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 172.16.27.26 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:105667 Archived-At: >>>>> "Chong" == Chong Yidong writes: Chong> People who care enough about changing the default presumably Chong> know what they are doing (presumably, they want to have a Chong> different file name for some reasons of their own, and this Chong> change lets them do that without redefining the functions). The issue is that some project will check in files with the "wrong" name. Then we are back in the same situation. If you want emacs to "just work" across projects, you must write special code in your .emacs to recognize different settings in different directories. IOW, then we have the same problem we started out to solve. Tom