Re: Add file-locals and dir-locals

[Juri Linkov]

>> Since `add-file-local-variable' does both "add" and "replace" operations
>> it makes sense to rename it to `set-file-local-variable'.  But isn't "set"
>> rather connotes with an operation that reads a variable's value and sets
>> it to the variable with setq?
>
> I don't care about the name.  But please fix the doc-strings accordingly ;-)

This is fixed below.  A new non-interactive function
`modify-file-local-variable' for dealing with internal processing of the
Local Variables list accepts two possible values of the new argument `op':
`add-or-replace' and `delete'.  It is possible to easily change this
function to accept more operations such as `add' that will only add
a new variable but never delete old values and so on.

But I think currently two operations are enough.  From the user's POV
there are two commands `add-file-local-variable' and
`delete-file-local-variable' that rely on the internal function
`modify-file-local-variable'.  The user might want either add a new
variable instead of all its old settings or delete it.

add-local.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp

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Juri Linkov
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