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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
	Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>
Subject: Re: Can we expand the valid location of "Local Variables" ?
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 03:07:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv5zf7pgb5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <microsoft-free.87zhcjwkg3.fsf@steveyoungs.com> (Steve Youngs's message of "Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:54:04 +1000")

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> How about some form of "include" mechanism:
>
>         Local Variables:
>         @include: FILENAME
>         End:

Sounds OK, yes.

> I would suggest implementing that with the same care, considerations,
> and restrictions as has `eval' for Locals

Indeed.  There be dragons.

> Mind you, if your Local Vars sections are getting so out of hand that
> they warrant having a whole extra file to store them, you should probably
> re-think what you're doing. :-)

I think such an @include directive can be useful not just for large
sections but also to avoid duplicating settings (i.e. a kind of
alternative to .dir-locals.el, not tied to the directory hierarchy).


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-14  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-10 20:56 Can we expand the valid location of "Local Variables" ? Dima Kogan
2020-03-10 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-10 23:44   ` Dima Kogan
2020-03-11  2:01     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-22 23:08   ` Dima Kogan
2020-03-23  8:25     ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-23 14:17       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-23 15:28         ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-23 15:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-23 17:03             ` Dima Kogan
2020-03-23 17:24             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-24  2:20           ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-12  2:26 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-14  5:54   ` Steve Youngs
2020-03-14  7:07     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-03-15  3:08     ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-15  6:41       ` Steve Youngs
2020-03-16  3:36         ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-23 15:56 ` Yuri Khan
2020-03-23 16:55   ` Dima Kogan

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