GNU bug report logs - #17489
24.3; Major mode spec in .dir-locals.el breaks dired

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sergio Pokrovskij <sergio.pokrovskij <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 07:29:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 13685

Found in version 24.3

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Message #44 received at 17489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sergio Pokrovskij <sergio.pokrovskij <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17489: 24.3; Major mode spec in .dir-locals.el breaks dired
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 07:39:42 +0700

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii wrote:

  >> From: Sergio Pokrovskij <sergio.pokrovskij <at> gmail.com>
...
  >> ,----
  >> | Whenever Emacs visits any file IN THAT DIRECTORY or any of its
  >> | subdirectories, it will apply the directory-local variables
  >> | specified in `.dir-locals.el', AS THOUGH THEY HAD BEEN DEFINED AS
  >> | FILE-LOCAL VARIABLES for that file ...
  >> `----

  Eli> Are you saying that "." is not a file?

I applied dired to "tmp/tst", not to "tmp/tst/."

I expect that when I open a file linked from an encompassing
directory to "/tmp/tst/foo", the "/tmp/tst/.dir-locals.el" does
not affect the buffer.

-- 
Sergio
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