On 31/07/14 10:37, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
Hello Simon,
On 2014-07-31 at 10:53:20 +0200, Simon Marlow wrote:
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rts: add Emacs 'Local Variables' to every .c file
This will hopefully help ensure some basic consistency in the forward by overriding buffer variables. In particular, it sets the wrap length, the offset to 4, and turns off tabs.
I'm not a huge fan of this. Is there a way to do this without adding the spam to the end of every source file? Also it only works for emacs, what if the vim folks want to add their own spam?
I recently stumbled over
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=8d0a1a6bc05af7edd25b15ce915...
which lead me to read up on its effect which is explained in more detail in
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Directory-Variable...
| The usual way to define directory-local variables is to put a file | named .dir-locals.el1 in a directory. Whenever Emacs visits any file | in that directory or any of its subdirectories, it will apply the | directory-local variables specified in .dir-locals.el, as though they | had been defined as file-local variables for that file (see File | Variables).
So maybe that's a better option?
Great. Austin, want to change over to using .dir-locals.el? Cheers, Simon