Re: Blunderbuss ".dir-locals.el" raises everything in its path!!

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Alan Mackenzie<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, Lennart!
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:33:46PM +0200, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Alan Mackenzie<address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> > *** doc/emacs/custom.texi       4 Jun 2009 03:13:28 -0000       1.22
>> >    A @dfn{project} is a collection of files on which you work together.
>> > ! Usually, the project's files are kept in one or more directories of
>> > ! their own.  Occasionally, you may wish to define Emacs settings that
>> > ! are common to all the files that belong to the project.
>
>> Shouldn't it be "directory trees"?
>
> I don't think it should.  It adds verbiage without really adding
> meaning.  All directories are in trees, even a single directory on a
> floppy disk being a (somewhat degenerate) tree.  I think you're thinking
> about .dir-locals.el applying recursively to its subdirectories, but I
> don't think using "directory tree" at this point in the text would help
> people understand that subtelty.

Hi Alan!

Yes, I think of that, but it is essential, not a subtelty. (Compare
for example lgrep/rgrep.)

Adding that single word "tree" clarifies that difference. Why don't
you think it would help.