From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: project variable patch #2 Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:13:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189388960 13484 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2007 01:49:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:49:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tromey@redhat.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 10 11:49:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IUfRC-0004Rd-I3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:20:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUXwp-00088Q-Rd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IUXqb-0000oL-9K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:13:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IUXqa-0000nu-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:13:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUXqa-0000nq-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:13:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IUXqZ-0006oc-P7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:13:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IUXqD-0007Dy-D7; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:13:29 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Tom Tromey on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:16:58 -0600) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78378 Archived-At: + Emacs provides a way to specify local variable values per-project. The term "project" is misleading for this. A project is an activity, not a collection of code. Your project for this week could be to add a new feature to Emacs, but the directory would not be for your project, it would be for Emacs. Let's call them "local variable values for a whole directory". This means changing the node name, section title, and text. Changing the function names is also called for. + This example shows some settings that would be appropriate for GCC. "appropriate for the GCC source code". ("Appropriate for GCC" is ambiguous.) Finally, a string key can +be used to specify an alist which applies to a relative subdirectory +in the project. + Please avoid the passive voice. + When reading settings from a file like this, Emacs automatically ...from this file...