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

[Stefan Monnier]

> Yidong, hack-local-variables desperately needs refactoring.

A refactoring would not be unwelcome.

> It was sort of tolerable when only file local variables were involved,
> but now it's all but unreadable and ununderstandable

I'd agree.

> (should this just be derstandable?)

Depends if you're constructivist or classicist.

> In particular, there's no great care taken about how the local variable
> settings from the two sources get combined.  How about the following
> idea: when a setting from the Local Variables: section is to be pushed
> onto file-local-variables-alist, any exisiting element for the same
> variable is first removed?

That would make a lot of sense, since it reflects what happens to the
variable's value in the end.  Also it does correspond to the behavior we
want that file-local should take precedence over dir-local.


        Stefan