Re: .dir-locals.el

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Maybe your suggestion to change hack-dir-local-variables so it uses
>> default-directory rather than buffer-file-name is a good one.  It seems
>> like it would be a safe change and would allow the above advice to feel
>> a tiny bit less hackish.

> This will also set the directory-wide file-variable values
> in newly created buffers, for good or bad.

Why?  This code is not expected to be run for new buffers.


        Stefan