From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
To: Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: dir-locals confusion
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 08:49:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJsNXTkOg1rCs613=Tk6+k9YAcG5o_RSqoisEiCfe+VFoaJG+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA98268CC9F3@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local>
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
wrote:
>
> Recently (possibly with an upgrade to emacs 24.1.1) I'm frequently getting
> this message:
> Error reading dir-locals: (file-error "Opening input file" "not a
> directory" "/cygdrive/q/.../tlock.c/.dir-locals.el")
>
> I see this frequently (but not always) under Cygwin and never under AIX
> 6.1.
>
> I do, of course, hack emacs, but I can't think of anything I've done that
> might have to do with dir-locals. Except for X configuration, I use exactly
> the same code on AIX and Cygwin.
>
> Since the obvious question is too vague, I'll simply ask this:
> Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
What's `default-directory' when this happens? My guess would be
"/cygdrive/q/.../tlock.c/", though I don't know how that would happen
if it's not a directory.
-PJ
Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from
magic is insufficiently advanced.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-07 15:07 dir-locals confusion Doug Lewan
2012-08-07 15:49 ` PJ Weisberg [this message]
2012-08-08 6:43 ` Jambunathan K
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