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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/CodingStyle: Move emacs settings into .dir-locals.el
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On Fri, 04 Jan 2019, Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> wrote:
> Regarding users having their own version of .dir-locals.el: why do you
> think anyone would want to do that?

Err, .dir-locals.el is not only for a project to enforce local variables
on emacs users, it's also for the users to set local variables for the
project.

> Anyway, if anyone wants to replace that file they can provide a
> .dir-locals-2.el file.

It does not replace anything, it's loaded in addition to .dir-locals.el.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center