Re: .dir-locals.el vs. guix-devel-mode

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:

> [...]
>
> More generally, I'm strongly against using "eval" in .dir-locals.  IMO
> this file should be used only to set local variables, and ideally it
> shouldn't evaluate an arbitrary code.

Just to clarify: I suppose you mean using eval for things other than
which Emacs can automatically determine to be safe.  E.g.

    (eval . (put 'foo 'scheme-indent-function <n>))

for integer <n> is safe; Emacs will eval that silently if I'm not
mistaken.

But for things where Emacs pesters the user because it finds it
"unsafe," I find that very annoying.

> So I think .dir-locals.el is not the proper place for indentation rules.
> IMHO they should be moved to "guix-devel.el" and the manual should
> recommend using 'guix-devel-mode' for editing guix package files as it
> provides the proper indenting, highlighting and some useful key
> bindings.

IMO anything that can be put into .dir-locals.el without making Emacs
pester the user should be put there.  It's a delight for a Guix newb to
get such settings automatically, because otherwise M-q and TAB will
break existing correct indentation in edited source files, which is very
annoying, and also it might lead to extra patch review round-trips when
the user creates a patch with wrong indentation without noticing.

Just my two cents as a passerby in this thread...

Taylan