Re: Emacs 24: add symlink to .dir-settings.el

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Sebastian Rose wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I found emacs 24 does not respect the
>
>   .dir-settings.el
>
> anymore. Instead, it reads the
>
>  .dir-locals.el
>
>
> As it may have the exactly same contents, could we add a symlink?

I guess this would be somewhat system dependent?  Not all operating  
systems
do support this, I suppose?

- Carsten

>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html
> states it will work on FAT, too (there a file is created, but you  
> cannot
> change the type by accident).
>
>
> I tested, and it works:
>
>   $ ln -s  .dir-settings.el .dir-locals.el
>
>   $ git add .dir-locals.el
>
>   $ git commit
>   Waiting for Emacs...
>   [mit-symlink 7a09e3f] Added a symlink `.dir-locals.e.'
>    1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>    create mode 120000 .dir-locals.el
>
>   $ rm .dir-locals.el
>
>   $ git reset --hard
>   HEAD is now at 7a09e3f Added a symlink `.dir-locals.e.'
>
>   $ ls -la .dir*
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 sebastian ... 11:53 .dir-locals.el -> .dir-settings.el
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 sebastian ... 10:44 .dir-settings.el
>
>
> Objections?
>
>
>   Sebastian
>
>
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- Carsten