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

[Alan Mackenzie]

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.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).