From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dir-locals confusion Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 08:49:20 -0700 Message-ID: References: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA98268CC9F3@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344354584 27370 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2012 15:49:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: Doug Lewan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 17:49:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sym2S-0007u5-0S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:49:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sym2R-00072L-CE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33395) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sym2F-0006zG-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:49:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sym25-0003fN-UF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-f169.google.com ([209.85.217.169]:34428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sym25-0003ez-Mu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:49:21 -0400 Original-Received: by lbon3 with SMTP id n3so2914794lbo.0 for ; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:49:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=qVJe/snyqKZgUFI0lEEsWxxKa+nvVqVLqBWE6xffMUs=; b=cGTcyYkzufGOvWjb5cq6zybFfVmHnJQJV5yFC9bOKgDgXkn5KZY/ObXkKvj24XS3vu ucJCMiMhB60g/Xlp8Ude+Co4wqw6PU9dL6ZDd9bD6pkPsLE0WLgYb6Abi587Ib4Pwzq1 heJJ0BmR3k/tC1jN96RBZm5fkuZYPzntv8hp2Q1keFcquR1S0uca2mcJi5O24ClSfiB7 gbldsaV3ra+2L7NVrOpvb70/Q+MDn3Gt9F0VHSPomqUGsMvplqSyCCBQOVxI4O1ik+fZ s+WHFa2FkPHLbf4q4QgjCbVTKiX9Tjhz81u2f0ISdqWQbBfbW1gn7WqIoNPmjLU+wOSN xc8A== Original-Received: by 10.112.86.105 with SMTP id o9mr6485442lbz.32.1344354560482; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.112.5.102 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 08:49:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA98268CC9F3@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> X-Google-Sender-Auth: I6CqzAG-b18hbR67F68mF3e7d3w X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.217.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86237 Archived-At: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Doug Lewan 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.