Re: Defaults for elisp-mode files

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 03.10.2012 20:06, schrieb Stefan Monnier:
> I'm seeing more and more Elisp files with "-*- lexical-binding: t;
> coding: utf-8 -*-" showing up, and I expect them to become the norm in
> the longer term.
>
> So I think in the longer term these annotations should be made
> unnecessary because they're ugly.
> For the `utf-8', I guess we can simply set auto-coding-alist and we
> could do that right now without much risk for serious breakage (IOW
> I suggest we do that for the next release after 24.3).
>
> But for the lexical-binding setting, it seems less obvious how to handle
> such a switch (other than start warning any file which doesn't set it
> explicitly to t or nil, and after a while change the default, and after
> yet another while remove the warning, the whole process taking probably
> more than 10 years).  Any suggestion would be welcome.
>
>
>          Stefan

It's not nice, but obvious. Being in favour of the present state here.

Using  .dir-locals or other non-related locations would rather obfuscate than 
being useful.

Best,

Andreas