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bug#66702: Add easy customization for .dir-locals.el files
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#66702: Add easy customization for .dir-locals.el files |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:48:27 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>>> M-x add-dir-local-variable RET nil RET foo RET t
>>> M-x diff-buffer-with-file RET RET
>>>
>>> Should we add a nosort option somewhere?
>>
>> The assumption was that .dir-locals.el will always be modified
>> by these commands. But since it's often modified manually
>> with an arbitrary order, this means that the sorting order
>> is not important. So we could simply remove the sorting code.
>
> Hmm, but that would be backward incompatible. Someone out there might
> be relying in these commands to keep the settings sorted.
Then we could add a simple variable, not a customizable option.
Then they could even set this variable in the customized .dir-locals.el!
bug#66702: Add easy customization for .dir-locals.el files, Juri Linkov, 2023/10/28