Re: .emacs-settings.el

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:39:48 +0000 (UTC) "Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> 
wrote: 

RJC>     I'm ok with dir-locals.el or any other name, but in general it should
RJC>     not be an .el file, right?  It's just some settings that will not be
RJC>     actual Lisp code.  Maybe dir-locals.elp for "emacs lisp properties"?

RJC> My understanding is that an Emacs Lisp file is specified to end with
RJC> .el

Sure.

RJC> address@hidden says the file in question is in Emacs Lisp, albeit
RJC> `not a file of arbitrary Lisp':

RJC>     ... it is not a file of arbitrary Lisp, but rather contains a set
RJC>     of buffer-local variables to set in the buffers visiting files it
RJC>     affects, subject to the normal risk-checking.

RJC> My understanding is that when he says `not a file of arbitrary Lisp
RJC> ... a set of buffer-local variables to set in the buffers visiting
RJC> files', he means no defuns.  Only setq's are permitted.

I thought it would look more like the file-local specification :)  If
it's not Lisp, we can give it pretty much any extension, but .elp would
probably be least surprising and shortest.

Ted