Subject: Re: bug#1672: we should add an emacs/.dir-locals.el
From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
To: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:47:11 -0800 (PST)

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

  > > Given that we want .dir-locals.el to become widely used, we should lead
  > > by example and add such a file to the distribution.
  > >
  > > Here's an example:
  > >
  > > ((nil . ((indent-tabs-mode . t)
  > >          (tab-width . 8)
  > >          (fill-column . 80)))
  > >  (c-mode . ((c-file-style . "GNU")))
  > >  (change-log-mode . ((add-log-time-zone-rule . t)))
  > >  ("lisp/mail/pmail*"
  > >   . ((nil . ((change-log-default-name . "ChangeLog.pmail"))))))
  > 
  > Good idea.  Then we can remove `add-log-time-zone-rule: t' from the
  > file Local Variables section of all ChangeLog files in the Emacs tree,
  > have no more spaces-vs-tabs mess and other formatting issues.

I checked in the file.  Now that we have it, things ca be added/removed
to make it better.