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

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>> In particular, the File Style and local variables settings are rarely
>>>> used precision instruments, for configuring unusual files unusually.
>>> This indicates that we should not set c-file-style in the .dir-locals.el
>>> file of the Emacs source tree.
>> Actually, I wonder: why would it be correct to use another style than GNU
>> for C files inside the Emacs source tree?
>> I don't think it's a feature that dir-locals.el takes precedence over
>> mode-hooks (it's more of an accident that we consider sufficiently
>> harmless not to fix it, especially since a fix would probably be
>> difficult/inconvenient/buggy), but in this case it seems to provide just
>> the behavior we want.  I mean we do want to "impose" the GNU style in
>> our files, no matter what the user usually prefers.
>> What am I missing?

> That setting space-before-funcall in c-cleanup-list is a very reasonable
> thing to do in the context of the GNU-style (why isn't it on by default for
> GNU?), and in no way breaks the imposed style.  But the old ways of doing
> that in the Emacs source tree doesn't work anymore, and there is nothing in
> NEWS, and AFAIK, no discussion about it has taken place.  It is just one of
> those frustrating WTF-discoveries.

Doesn't this rather point to a problem in C-mode's interaction between its
various config variables?


        Stefan