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* Directory-local variables?
@ 2008-12-28 17:29 Richard M Stallman
  2008-12-28 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
  2008-12-30 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Richard M Stallman @ 2008-12-28 17:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

    +@node Directory Local Variables
    +@section Directory Local Variables
    +@cindex directory local variables
    +
    +  A directory can specify local variable values common to all files in
    +that directory; Emacs uses these to create buffer-local bindings for
    +those variables in buffers visiting any file in that directory.  This
    +is useful when the files in the directory belong to some @dfn{project}
    +and therefore share the same local variables.

The term "directory-local variables" is potentially misleading; Emacs
does not implement directory-local bindings.  What this feature really
does is systematically set up buffer-local bindings for all files in a
directory.

So I think this needs to be described as a variant on the file local
variable lists.




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2008-12-28 17:29 Directory-local variables? Richard M Stallman
2008-12-28 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-29  0:30   ` Juri Linkov
2008-12-29  4:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-29 22:09     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-29 22:19       ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-30  0:05       ` Juri Linkov
2008-12-29 22:09   ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-30 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-31 12:29   ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-03  0:46     ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-07  0:45       ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-12 18:21         ` Stefan Monnier

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