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bug#66663: 30.0.50; Allow dir locals file selection in *-dir-local-varia
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Mauro Aranda |
Subject: |
bug#66663: 30.0.50; Allow dir locals file selection in *-dir-local-variable functions |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:49:26 -0300 |
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On 21/10/23 09:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
>> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 09:16:28 -0300
>> From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
>>
>> +Since both @file{.dir-locals.el} and @file{.dir-locals-2.el} file
>> +might exist in the same directory, there may be some clash about which
>> +file you want to modify when executing the above three commands. To
>> +solve that, all three of them take a prefix argument, to indicate
>> +which file you want to modify. When both files exist, a prefix
>> +argument means to prefer to modify @file{.dir-locals.el} instead of
>> +@file{.dir-locals-2.el}. When one of the files doesn't exist, and
>> +you're adding a variable or copying the file-local variables, a prefix
>> +argument means to modify (i.e., create) the file that doesn't yet
>> +exist.
>
> I think a better UI is to ask the user when the command is invoked
> with a prefix argument.
Yes, that makes sense. I'll try that approach.