From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Add a separate mode for .dir-locals.el Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 22:59:10 +0300 Message-ID: <831rvb9m9d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2058328b-aee5-8cb1-2659-a793e1354517@mit.edu> <87wod4m7sr.fsf@gnus.org> <835zkndcz4.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftjrbjhm.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftjr9sx4.fsf@gnu.org> <83eezb9s5b.fsf@gnu.org> <83bluf9qgb.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="46515"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, joaotavora@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 17 21:59:58 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iLBwE-000ByE-8Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 21:59:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58586 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iLBwD-0001cJ-18 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:59:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46601) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iLBvi-0001cD-JT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45763) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iLBvi-0006Sv-9t; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1343 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iLBvh-0008T0-P0; Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:59:26 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:50:41 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:241175 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: João Távora , > cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:50:41 -0400 > > > "Gross" means that it solves the problem not where it is caused, and > > FWIW, I disagree on this judgment: it's not the only acceptable place to > solve this problem, but I think it's pretty close to its origin. In what sense is it close? > Fixing it in fly*.el would be "gross" as would become evident if you > tried to write a patch for it. If you want the patch to be specific to > flymake it'll have to go either to `elisp-mode` or to > elisp-flymake-*, all of which live in elisp-mode.el. elisp-flymake-* at least have the advantage of having "flymake" in their names, so some relation is evident. > I agree that at some level they are theoretically the same, but in > practice they exhibit important differences. Differences that are important for an Emacs major mode? What differences are those? And why not make emacs-lisp-mode recognize these differences and support them accordingly?