Package: emacs23
Version: 23.2+1-7
Severity: wishlist
(emacs)Directory Variables says
If you put a file with a special name `.dir-locals.el'(1) in a
directory, Emacs will read it when it visits any file in that
directory or any of its subdirectories, and apply the settings it
specifies to the file's buffer. Emacs searches for `.dir-locals.el'
starting in the directory of the visited file, and moving up the
directory tree. (To avoid slowdown, this search is skipped for remote
files.)
And indeed this is the case. files.el says:
(defun hack-dir-local-variables ()
"Read per-directory local variables for the current buffer.
Store the directory-local variables in `dir-local-variables-alist'
and `file-local-variables-alist', without applying them."
(when (and enable-local-variables
(buffer-file-name)
(not (file-remote-p (buffer-file-name))))
;; Find the variables file.
...
I would like this to work even for remote files. In my own emacs,
simply cutting and pasting the whole function into my startup files,
with the file-remote-p test removed, works, as expected.
However that won't suit everyone :-). I think this should be
configurable. I don't know exactly what machinery Emacs has for this
kind of configuration but the most flexible would perhaps be to
replace the call to file-remote-p with a call to a function obtained
from a variable, which would default to file-remote-p.
Then if I want it to work all the time I have merely to define the
function to be one which always returns nil. Or if I want to do
something more sophisticated I have the hook I need.
I'd be happy to supply a patch, but it would probably be best if some
expert in modern elisp would point me to the names of the facilities I
should be using; I'll then look up those names in the docs and do the
actual work of writing and testing a patch.
Thanks,
Ian.
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