* Value of `dir-locals-file' [was: Add a separate mode for .dir-locals.el]
@ 2019-10-18 14:53 Drew Adams
2019-10-18 15:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
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From: Drew Adams @ 2019-10-18 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Juanma Barranquero, Eli Zaretskii
Cc: cpitclaudel, João Távora, Stefan Monnier,
Emacs developers
> Too late now, but perhaps .dir-locals.el should have not used the .el extension. Perhaps we should've reserved .el for lisp code (in the usual meaning of the term).
> .dir-locals.el is just a configuration file, even if it contains elisp data. .emacs.desktop is a save file containing real elisp code (I mean, function calls like setq and desktop-create-buffer, not just data lists) and it's not called .emacs-desktop.el, after all. As a consequence, I imagine, of nobody usually either editing or directly loading .emacs.desktop (though I've edited it a few times).
+1.
Same for your bookmarks file. You can call it
anything, including `foo.el', but the default
name is `.emacs.bmk'.
Maybe someone who named the file `.dir-locals.el'
thought that eventually it might have Lisp code
in it? Or perhaps this question just wasn't
considered?
Variable `dir-locals-file' is a constant - it's
intended as a variable. Why is that? Perhaps
its value should be changed from `.dir-locals.el'?
(Default value, if it becomes a variable variable.)
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* Re: Value of `dir-locals-file' [was: Add a separate mode for .dir-locals.el]
2019-10-18 14:53 Value of `dir-locals-file' [was: Add a separate mode for .dir-locals.el] Drew Adams
@ 2019-10-18 15:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
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From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2019-10-18 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams
Cc: João Távora, Eli Zaretskii, cpitclaudel, Stefan Monnier,
Emacs developers
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 4:53 PM Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> Variable `dir-locals-file' is a constant - it's
> intended as a variable. Why is that?
There was some discussion at the time. Search for it in the emacs-devel
archives if you're interested.
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