Subject: Re: bug#17205: 24.3.50; dired and directory variables

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 13:50:19 +0100

Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> > Do all these cases work for you, too, in Emacs 28?
>
> All of my reported issues seem to be fixed indeed, thanks!  But a tiny
> thing remains: in the
>
> ((nil . ((a .  "hallo")
>          (subdirs . nil))))
>
> scenario, the variable `a' is not bound in the dired buffer for the
> directory the .dir-locals.el file lives in.

Seems that in this case this test (unexpectedly) fails:

  (equal root default-directory)

where in my case root --> /home/micha/ and default-directory --> "~/".

Regards,

Michael.