From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09E57D04D for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2019 20:04:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726270AbfAEUEs (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2019 15:04:48 -0500 Received: from mx.kolabnow.com ([95.128.36.42]:20218 "EHLO mx.kolabnow.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726267AbfAEUEs (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2019 15:04:48 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 380 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2019 15:04:47 EST Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by ext-mx-out003.mykolab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FD740B2E; Sat, 5 Jan 2019 20:58:26 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kolabnow.com; h= message-id:references:in-reply-to:subject:subject:from:from:date :date:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type :mime-version:received:received:received; s=dkim20160331; t= 1546718305; x=1548532706; bh=OWOU6jVvBTyX5WrHHLY3STg0P3ljGjvzNb1 +fhiGCRM=; b=SgS0fxm0GyviSYNUiGs/2db7p3borcn0GknozlYDdHb48gwz5pO 4arRFACrWlviEbljvcvvS4122JUiIOfEkCFjGo+/A8Dd5zWiNdTpwoOfNiz1Rgd3 EuWfGyjcdX5vieyMLrNynp5EyTSo9mUkl43JddecWapRhe6+G9XJ1sJKEtBH8h3h J1SDdfr6X9xVfOisTUwybLK+k6MkFvnMsV3/FDlY2gRV022zwNUOFQsxUoWELU9x fl5dwVggsyeld1fhXKiISfu8sui8qXnX+ifhmJPmvLjq/O2c8d9rH5PjI5w7gE5O BaDKm1HaGPkp2Qt1vHfhz7sPxCoJbpkqG+7urZW3CvtN9Kj8R43eTJ8Yb1nDjP8d NUoApLT7CDsn5QVlBXxYSWvlUTy/QZo1a28kTAR+qz/Xj5GRtWQ3NYrobeqUx1Kx G23QttyHmX/8zlI8XCN3WbGBvsc3m9iVP8vxcCchGjD+SO2dPWyIaAAWXbjPKqCO ck/a/Ez+kzwkSUV1INyhwPNZQy2PumFzIGew2IUwnT6nFSRrfSvAJBtpi6o28GvH GzhpFq1XM4CDKFCzZm4VVBQivYqSxhFhrTorTrNF5ODM7MgssMbZPKcy7caReTvD XtzRRvt4PdG+T10YEj/+LAxW+F8ZaGh6i2/sa0l7Ks2cp/fqBYltfZ6k= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mykolab.com Received: from mx.kolabnow.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ext-mx-out003.mykolab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JxbCbPxUmc4q; Sat, 5 Jan 2019 20:58:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from int-mx002.mykolab.com (unknown [10.9.13.2]) by ext-mx-out003.mykolab.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 70118409EE; Sat, 5 Jan 2019 20:58:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from int-subm001.mykolab.com (unknown [10.9.37.1]) by int-mx002.mykolab.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 084B42588; Sat, 5 Jan 2019 20:58:18 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 11:58:15 -0800 From: Alison Chaiken To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Federico Vaga , Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox , "Geyslan G . Bem" , Tiago Natel de Moura , Joe Perches , Li Yang Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/CodingStyle: Use directory-local variables for emacs In-Reply-To: <1546641550.83374.8.camel@acm.org> References: <20190104210834.89231-1-bvanassche@acm.org> <1951386.HLNclI27qt@harkonnen> <1546641550.83374.8.camel@acm.org> Message-ID: <84ce7ee302856836b922cfe0ddf2a74e@she-devel.com> X-Sender: alison@she-devel.com Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On 2019-01-04 14:39, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> As a general comment, I personally think that it worth to mention the >> fact >> that the user can take this code (actually part of it) and put it in a >> .dir- >> locals.el file in the top-level directory. > > I'm not sure we should recommend this. Settings in ~/.emacs are not > affected > by git clean -f -x but .dir-locals.el is removed by that command. Why not add the file to .gitignore, possibly in a separate patch? -- Alison --- Alison Chaiken alison@she-devel.com http://she-devel.com The real trolley problem is that trolleys are underfunded. -- Alex Roy