From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:19:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83aanyhrnz.fsf@gnu.org> <83bp814l5x.fsf@gnu.org> <838w354f7i.fsf@gnu.org> <8362y94egs.fsf@gnu.org> <834odt4cd4.fsf@gnu.org> <8339td4a47.fsf@gnu.org> <19lj75ibdz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83zkvl2crg.fsf@gnu.org> <83wrqo2q1s.fsf@gnu.org> <83iq263k39.fsf@gnu.org> <838w322utu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284629591 9641 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2010 09:33:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, wojciech.meyer@googlemail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 16 11:33:07 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwAq1-0008DI-Ka for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:33:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58148 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwApz-0000th-8H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34292 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwApi-0000jn-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:32:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwAcx-0003LR-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:19:37 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:42370) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwAcx-0003LN-R0; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:19:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-36.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.36]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o8G9JUoF006434; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 08A4E66289; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:19:29 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <838w322utu.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:09:17 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3623=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130249 Archived-At: >> > There's nothing special in files that begin with a dot, as far as >> > Windows shells or "globbing" is concerned. And .dir-locals.el is just >> > a normal files, apart of the fact that its name starts with a dot. So >> > I don't really understand what you are asking. >> Whether there is something we can do to this file such that the globbing >> will not include this file. > Nothing that would stick like the file name does. I assume we want a > solution that will not need any special handling of the file whenever > it is updated, to restore its "glob-safe" nature. OK, so the file-local variable we have put is the best option here. Stefan