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: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:15:09 +0300 Message-ID: <83h8422qaq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2058328b-aee5-8cb1-2659-a793e1354517@mit.edu> <835zkndcz4.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftjrbjhm.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftjr9sx4.fsf@gnu.org> <83eezb9s5b.fsf@gnu.org> <83bluf9qgb.fsf@gnu.org> <835zkn9o01.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfti8ovn.fsf@gnu.org> <83d0eu8c80.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfth6p0y.fsf@gnu.org> <7f141905-6be3-2c21-e2af-b5926dd80223@gmail.com> <83a79w7rg6.fsf@gnu.org> <38522c1f-8127-0560-7cc5-7bdce849e650@yandex.ru> <831rv86kcg.fsf@gnu.org> <60d451a0-9cbb-4158-6143-3646c1eb05f2@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="89143"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 21 15:18:27 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 1iMXZn-000Mzj-PX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:18:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40970 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iMXZk-0002GY-DL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 09:18:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34941) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iMXWn-0008SF-6Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 09:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37158) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iMXWm-0005NF-R9; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 09:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4807 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iMXWl-0000PY-Tx; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 09:15:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <60d451a0-9cbb-4158-6143-3646c1eb05f2@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:43:09 +0300) 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:241301 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:43:09 +0300 > Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, joaotavora@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > That's why I said this issue needs to be investigated and the > > conclusions posted and discussed, before we can design a coherent > > feature to support such files. Doing that in a hurry, based on a > > single incident and only on some vague ideas what other aspects of > > these files may need handling, doesn't sound wise to me, especially as > > the rest of the issues, whatever they are, cannot be urgent, judging > > by the lack of complaints. > > It is indeed not urgent. I think it's an argument to postpone the > proposed change (new major mode and stuff) until after Emacs 27. But not > against doing it in general. It depends on what will be conclusions of the investigation. Maybe it will find some good reasons to do this even in Emacs 27, although I'd be surprised. But my point about the "hurry" was not about postponing, it was that we shouldn't make the decision before we have a good understanding of the problem beyond the specific issue with .dir-locals.el