Re: Allowing symlinked dir-locals files?

[Stefan Monnier]

Hi Artur,

Yuri D'Elia [2021-08-16 20:01:20] wrote:
> I was trying to share some localized customization by symlinking a
> .dir-locals.el file across directories, but it doesn't seem to work.
>
> Looking at the current files.el:4330, we explicitly check if the file is
> a regular file. And looking at the FIXME comment just above I concur

AFAICT, this `file-regular-p` check (used in addition
to `(not (file-directory-p f))`) was introduced by your:

    commit f0b82b34536e6bafbecbd642eee0cb0f534f8647
    Author: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
    Date:   Sat Jan 16 08:50:46 2016 +0000
    
        * lisp/files.el (dir-locals--all-files): Use completion instead of 
wildcards
        
        (dir-locals-file)
        * lisp/files-x.el (modify-dir-local-variable)
        * lisp/dos-fns.el (dosified-file-name)
        * lisp/help-fns.el (describe-variable): Change accordingly.

Do you remember why added it?


        Stefan