Re: Project initialization files?

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On 17 Jul 2012, Bruce Korb spake thusly:

> Hi Eli,
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> ~/my-day-job, I use the "work" style, etc.
>>>
>>> Does such a thing already exist?
>
>> Is the .dir-locals.el feature (described in the "Specifying File
>> Variables" node of the Emacs manual) fit the bill?  If not, why not?
>
> Only that it entails adding a file to the source tree.

Emacs supports 'directory classes', which let you say things like

(dir-locals-set-directory-class (expand-file-name "~/a/b/c") 'gnu
(dir-locals-set-directory-class (expand-file-name "~/x/y/z") 'linux)
(dir-locals-set-directory-class (expand-file-name "~/foo/bar") 'otbs)

and then you can say e.g.

(dir-locals-set-class-variables
 'gnu '((c-mode . ((c-file-style . "gnu")
                   (fill-column . 80)
                   (sentence-end-double-space . t)
                   (indent-tabs-mode . t)))))

to set variables in each class to your heart's content, without any need
to touch the directories themselves.

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