Subject: dir-locals-collect-variables discrepancy in handling non-file buffers
From: Ivan Shmakov <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:12:52 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Package:  emacs
Severity: minor

	Please consider the patch MIMEd.

	* lisp/files.el (dir-locals-collect-variables): Use
	default-directory in place of the file name while working on
	non-file buffers (as hack-dir-local-variables already does.)

	The issue I observe is as follows.  First, I create ~/foo and
	~/foo/ru directories, and a ~/foo/.dir-locals.el file like:

((nil
  (ispell-local-dictionary  . "esperanto"))
 ("ru"
  (nil
   (ispell-local-dictionary . "russian"))))

	Then:

(with-temp-buffer
  (cd "~/foo/ru/")
  (hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer)
  ;; .
  dir-local-variables-alist)

	The result is '((ispell-local-dictionary . "esperanto")),
	contrary to the expected '((… . "russian")).

	This does not happen for buffers associated with files:

(with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect "~/foo/ru/bar")
  (hack-dir-local-variables)
  ;; .
  dir-local-variables-alist)

	Reading the code suggests that dir-locals-collect-variables
	fails to handle the (stringp key) case properly when ‘file-name’
	is nil, which is what my patch is intended to fix.

-- 
FSF associate member #7257  np. Conclusion — Apocalyptica    … B6A0 230E 334A
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -3567,8 +3569,10 @@
 (defun dir-locals-collect-variables (class-variables root variables)
   "Collect entries from CLASS-VARIABLES into VARIABLES.
 ROOT is the root directory of the project.
 Return the new variables list."
-  (let* ((file-name (buffer-file-name))
+  (let* ((file-name (or (buffer-file-name)
+			;; handle non-file buffers, too
+			default-directory))
 	 (sub-file-name (if file-name
                             ;; FIXME: Why not use file-relative-name?
 			    (substring file-name (length root)))))