Subject: Re: bug#37878: [PATCH] Add auto-insert skeleton for ".dir-locals.el"

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:30:14 +0100

close 37878 27.1
thanks

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Steps to reproduce:
>> 0. emacs -Q
>> 1. M-x auto-insert-mode
>> 2. C-x C-f .dir-locals.el RET
>>
>> Result: The entire Emacs standard header gets inserted into the
>> buffer, complete with author, copyright notice, provide-statement,
>> etc.
>> Expected result: Either don't insert anything or use a custom skeleton.
>>
>> Please find attached a proposed patch, which adds a skeleton for
>> "dir-locals.el" to auto-insert-alist.  I believe it would make it
>> easier for especially beginning Emacs users to use ".dir-locals.el".
>> (Open the file, type M-x auto-insert, and voilá.)
>>
>> Any comments?
>
> Good addition for someone who doesn't use add-dir-local-variable
> that inserts this header.

Thanks for the review.  Now pushed to master as commit 6c82aafcc0.

> BTW, please also add the same two lines to the header of
> .dir-locals.el in Emacs repository.

Good idea.  I did that in commit 7cde03484.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas