From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Blunderbuss ".dir-locals.el" raises everything in its path!! Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:11:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20090712144137.GB2524@muc.de> <20090713082501.GD1803@muc.de> <5629A21B-960E-4D20-8BCB-E5B3D736DE3B@mit.edu> <87hbxg74i2.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87fxcxievu.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87zlb4wexa.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247778728 23771 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2009 21:12:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chad Brown , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 16 23:12:01 2009 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 1MRYFE-0003vK-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:12:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRYFE-0004mS-23 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRYEb-00042T-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRYEW-0003yI-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60118 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRYEV-0003y5-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:11:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:49994) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRYEV-00044Y-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:11:15 -0400 Original-Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so430942bwz.42 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:11:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=19S7ha4tfK0feJz7lSz3QieyovsDlkCh71nDQfwSf6U=; b=eS1wb/1uyg3brr29bAgJBh6XGY19Upy/z3gpngkq30ocr+c2z5H6u42ASOgaRDvrIU dNqcL8Mm/SEi/RbPiQDUApWdkpFFoJ1/+1ODZSiP+Gc7S4hMp0AAEi21r3+bnlORB49l HkWCV0EuEQCnPNB46EZbwcbefLQ8J+176Lri0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LpnKpxGRAN4mb/Sup3zBMOBBEpJaIZKAUsgKY8aBsdA3fATnDLgRFhJulSmbWUnBuO plnsJY/u+PLmXuQInTU2SHd2o1ApeihIY1/G/QiWLzYKDm9b8LyGHD+IWb7p8kK46lnA ohD7ARh7OotoZC0GUKHS8LcxJg0zLKnEk65Lc= Original-Received: by 10.223.110.200 with SMTP id o8mr44407fap.56.1247778673621; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:11:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87zlb4wexa.fsf@mail.jurta.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:112557 Archived-At: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Juri Linkov wrote: >> The problem with that is that if the dir-local.el file changes between >> the time you open the file and the C-h v, you'll get incorrect results. > > The main purpose of adding an information about .dir-locals.el in C-h v > is to warn the user about a new dir-local mechanism that s?he might > not be aware of. =C2=A0This warning is less useful when the user already > has dealt with dir-local.el files. Why not simply tell in C-h v if you find a dir/file local variable what it means? Mayby a link to relavant info/help?