From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Directory-local variables?
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:06:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3ag7bp5s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocyveruq.fsf@jurta.org>
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:30:29 +0200
>
> It seems to me that the most precise and unambiguous term is
> "directory-local file variables".
If you say "file variables", then "local" in "directory-local" loses
precision. It is actually "file local variables common to all files
in a directory", but that's too long and a mouthful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-29 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-28 17:29 Directory-local variables? Richard M Stallman
2008-12-28 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-29 0:30 ` Juri Linkov
2008-12-29 4:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-12-29 22:09 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-29 22:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-30 0:05 ` Juri Linkov
2008-12-29 22:09 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-30 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-31 12:29 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-03 0:46 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-07 0:45 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-12 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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