Re: cl-defgeneric vs random funcall in project.el

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
>> On 08/01/2015 05:20 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:
>>
>> The best bet seems to be to store them in the project file, which a project
>> backend reads and saves to the project instance's slots.
>
> I'd prefer that .dir-locals is used if you can manage it. I don't want to
> have to debug other sources of variable settings other than the ones
> I have to know now. It also makes backend writing much easier.

Well, you learned about .dir-locals at some point. If a standard Emacs
project file had been available then, you might have learned that
instead :).

But since .dir-locals exists, it would make sense to have a project
implementation that uses .dir-local information as much as possible.

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