Re: status of dir-vars or dir-locals inclusion in emacs?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > Can we please reduce the number of the files that are looked up from 3
>> > to 2?
>> > Do we need both .emacs-settings.el and .emacs-settings? IMHO one of
>> > them should be enough.
>> 
>> Even just one seems to be plenty.
>> Either .emacs-settings or .emacs-settings.el (no preference between the
>> two).

> The reason I thought about 2 was so that we can have a .emacs-settings
> file and another one that does not start with a dot for
> filesystems/OSes that have issues with files that start with a dot.

We have only .emacs and it works fine (yes I know we had _emacs at some
point but this is not needed any more).  If there's any problem with
.emacs-settings, convert-standard-filename will deal with it.


        Stefan