From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: status of dir-vars or dir-locals inclusion in emacs? Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:08:38 -0600 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185809193 24552 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2007 15:26:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:26:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 30 17:26:26 2007 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 1IFX8b-0006Tp-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:26:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFX8b-0003wr-7k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:26:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFX8W-0003wf-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:26:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFX8U-0003wT-PY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:26:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFX8U-0003wQ-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IFX8T-0005Cr-NN; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l6UFQGoo019209; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:26:16 -0400 Original-Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l6UFQGIY031081; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:26:16 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ton.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.15]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l6UFQCoR028963; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:26:13 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 836CA508230; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:08:38 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon\, 30 Jul 2007 10\:45\:56 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:75806 Archived-At: >>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier writes: >> First, you can create a "settings.el" or ".settings.el" file in a >> project's top-level directory. This file holds a sexp that looks like Stefan> I feel uneasy about this name. It seems just too generic. Yeah, I agree. Stefan> How 'bout "dir-local-settings" instead? Stefan> I'm also tempted to add "emacs" in the name, but I guess that Stefan> the ".el" extension can be considered sufficient information Stefan> (and after all, we don't use the "Emacs" name in the "Local Stefan> Variables" section cookies either). Mentioning Emacs wouldn't be too bad. "dir-local-settings" is too long for my taste. How about ".emacs-settings"? Tom