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Re: status of dir-vars or dir-locals inclusion in emacs?


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: status of dir-vars or dir-locals inclusion in emacs?
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:08:38 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> 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




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