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

[David Kastrup]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   > > Can we please reduce the number of the files that are looked up from 3
>   > > to 2?  
>   > > Do we need both .emacs-settings.el and .emacs-settings? IMHO one of
>   > > them should be enough.
>   > 
>   > Even just one seems to be plenty.
>   > Either .emacs-settings or .emacs-settings.el (no preference between the
>   > two).
>
> The reason I thought about 2 was so that we can have a
> .emacs-settings file and another one that does not start with a dot
> for filesystems/OSes that have issues with files that start with a
> dot.

For those file systems there already is a substitution mechanism in
place: for example, as far as Emacs is concerned, "~/.emacs" is the
startup file even for those file systems.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum