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

[Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>]

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> 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?
>>
>> 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).
>
>
> Sorry, it seems I did not read carefully enough.  I have now applied
> your change.
>
> - Carsten
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> - Carsten


Good, thanks!

Now my future patches will always be TAB-indented ;)

  Sebastian