Re: Blunderbuss ".dir-locals.el" raises everything in its path!!

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:


> Yes, we both agree on what is happening.  My point is that the contents
> of .dir-locals.el should not override explicit values given by the user
> in his .emacs.

Sorry, but isn't the point of .dir-locals.el to override settings on a 
project tree specific basis, like file locals only for whole directory 
trees? Wouldn't it'd be weird if .emacs "won" ?

I mean, I can see that yes, one might ALSO want a different kind of 
.dir-local.el or file-local setting that doesn't (In the common lisp 
case that could be handled by defvar vs. defparameter, say...)

(The thing that irritates me about dir-locals is their syntactic 
incompatiblity with file-locals.   If I want to promote a file local
I've been setting on a bunch of files to directory local, AFAIK I need 
to rejig the syntax.)