Re: [External] : Re: Easy Customization for Directory Local Variables

[Mauro Aranda]

On 25/9/23 11:32, Drew Adams wrote:
>
>>> From a quick look, my only suggestion is to have the project 
command be named something like `project-edit-dir-local-variables'.
>>
>> That would mean to add it to project.el.  I'm fine with proposing that
>> provided the code gets accepted.
>
> Are dir-local vars limited to what Emacs
> calls a "project"?  I didn't think so.
> Emacs's use of the term "project" is more
> limited than what a project might be in
> general, and even that is, I think, more
> limited than what dir-local vars are/imply.
>
> (Just one top-of-the-head opinion, and not
> one very knowledgeable about Emacs "projects".)

The main command, currently called customize-dirlocals, creates a buffer
to edit a .dir-locals.el file under default-directory.  No limitation
about a "project", as handled by project.el, or whatsoever.  At least
that's the goal.

Another command, currently called customize-dirlocals-project, creates
a buffer to edit the .dir-locals.el file that belongs to some "project",
again, as handled by project.el.  I'm not much of a user of project.el
but it's supposed to be handy, since the user might be editing a file
under a subdirectory of a "project" (recognized by project.el) and
decides to edit the .dir-locals.el that belongs to that "project".  So I
can see why it would be desired for such command to be in project.el,
just like commands to customize a specific set of options, or a group,
belong outside cus-edit.el