Re: Trying to set indent-tabs-mode to nil in f90-mode with .dir-locals.el

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

Robert Pluim writes:

>>>>>> On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 13:01:51 +0100, Stefan Kangas said:
>     Stefan> The manual (info "(emacs)Directory Variables") indeed says:
>
>     Stefan>    If the ‘.dir-locals.el’ file contains multiple different values for a
>     Stefan> variable using different mode names or directories, the values will be
>     Stefan> applied in an order such that the values for more specific modes take
>     Stefan> priority over more generic modes.
>
>     Stefan> I tried, but I can't reproduce this issue here (using the upcoming
>     Stefan> Emacs 27 development branch).  I would try using "emacs -Q" to rule
>     Stefan> out that there is something in your local configuration which causes
>     Stefan> this.
>
> This is <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=33400>, which
> was fixed in emacs-26.3

Thanks a lot for the info!  Specially for the pointer to the bug,
because understanding the bug I discovered a workaround: reordering the
list so f90-mode appears first, things work as expected.

-- 
Alberto