Re: Can tramp load .dir-locals.el in a project?

[Michael Albinus]

Leo <address@hidden> writes:

> I ended it up redefining hack-dir-local-variables which seems to be the
> only way around it. I haven't noticed much performance difference. I
> suppose if they limit the directory search level to something like 5, it
> shouldn't be a problem. But disabling is overreacting.

We have had a similar problem with vc-registered, which was not well
suited for the remote case. Tramp has now a special handling for this
which is much more performant. But this was only possible, because
vc-registered is a magic file operations, which allows invocation of a
handler.

If there would be a similar primitive for handling .dir-locals, we could
apply another special handling as well. But as long as Tramp is not
involved by calling a handler, we cannot do anything.

> Leo

Best regards, Michael.