Re: Allowing .dir-locals-N.el

[Stephen Leake]

Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> writes:

>> > EZ> Doesn't that mean ".dir-locals20.el: will be unable to override
>> > EZ> ".dir-locals3.el"?
>
> Yes. I'm honestly not concerned with this. That's just how file sorting
> works everywhere, from a simple “sorted-by-name” folder in Widows Explorer
> all the way to the order in which config files are loaded inside
> `/etc/*.d/' configuration directories. People might be caught off-guard by
> this occasionally, but it's fairly easy to understand.

The simple fix is for the user to use two digit numbers in all files;

.dir-locals03.el
.dir-locals20.el

That's entirely under the control of the user; if they have less than
ten files, use one digit; more than ten, two digits, etc.

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-- Stephe