bug#13646: Whitespace support for file/mode-specific styles and actions

[Didier Verna <didier@didierverna.net>]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

> It hasn't been said explicitly in this report AFAICS, but you don't
> need a dir-locals.el file to use directory local settings. You can do
> it in .emacs with dir-locals-set-directory-class. See

  Yes indeed (I since read the relevant documentation). The problems
  that remain, AFAUI, are

   1/ as you said, the (current) lack of support for regexp-based dir
   (or file, for that matter) specification,
   2/ the fact that eventually, the settings turn into buffer-local
   variables.

   Also, correct me if I'm wrong but I think that Custom is totally
   unaware of the dir-locals feature, so this is less user-friendly than
   a package-specific solution.

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