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bug#15252: dir-locals: superdir (or parentdir) support
From: |
Jambunathan K |
Subject: |
bug#15252: dir-locals: superdir (or parentdir) support |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:09:15 +0530 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Introductory word:
I am having a private library that implements a unified search
interface. It will use `cscope' as search engine while visiting *.[ch]
files and `rgrep' as search engine while visiting *.el files.
The search as it stands will be on the whole of search tree.
It is "specified" in as .dir-locals.el as below.
~/src/emacs/trunk/.dir-locals.el:
((c-mode
(search-dir . "~/src/emacs/trunk/")
(search-engine . cscope))
(emacs-lisp-mode
(search-dir . "~/src/emacs/trunk/lisp")
(search-engine . rgrep)))
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Problem:
If I am visiting an Org file (say trunk/lisp/org/org.el), the recursive
search *on whole lisp tree* happens just fine.
But if I am visiting a Gnus file (say trunk/lisp/org/org.el), the
recursive search fails.
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Diagnosis:
The reason is this because Gnus has it's own .dir-locals.el for lisp
files.
~/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el:
((emacs-lisp-mode . ((show-trailing-whitespace . t))))
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What I need:
So to realize my use case, I want that the "emacs-lisp-mode" settings
from Gnus tree be merged with that specified from trunk.
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One possible way to achieve it:
Introduce a `superdir' or a `parentdir' keyword, to traverse till the
root.
~/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el:
((emacs-lisp-mode . ((show-trailing-whitespace . t)
(superdir . t) ; <=====================
)))
Compare `superdir' to the already existing `subdir'. From
(info "(emacs) Directory Variables")
((c-mode . ((c-file-style . "BSD")
(subdirs . nil) ; <=====================
)))
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Closing note:
Particularly useful for "submodules" which are part of a "sumo" project.
- bug#15252: dir-locals: superdir (or parentdir) support,
Jambunathan K <=