Il giorno lun, 20/08/2012 alle 00.39 +0200, David Kastrup ha scritto: > The only reasonable way to address the amount and kind of concerns > voiced here is not to apply the patch. Instead, one should likely > explain in CG how to use M-x add-dir-local-variable RET to achieve its > equivalent. In that case, nobody will have his Emacs' behavior get > silently changed from under him to obey LilyPond coding standards while > inside of LilyPond source directories. > > It may also be feasible to add a lengthy explanation to the CG that on > sufficiently new Emacs versions, the coding standards might be obeyed > automatically on some points. > > Writing a treatise of that kind is quite beyond the scope of the > original patch. Analyzing the effect of reformatting the whole Scheme > directory with Emacs' default Scheme indentation, whether or not using > tabs, is also wildly outside of the scope of the patch. > > I don't see myself in a position to deal with the can of worms opened by > this patch in a reasonable manner.
Neither am I, and probably it's not a so good idea to force Emacs settings without the knowing it... an explanation in the CG that tells the contributor to generate herself the .dir-locals.el, and adding this file to .gitignore, could be a better way to go. Graham, what do you think? John _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
