Leo <[email protected]> writes: > On 2010-05-20 17:04 +0100, Michael Albinus wrote: >> | If you put a file with a special name `.dir-locals.el'(1) in a >> | directory, Emacs will read it when it visits any file in that directory >> | or any of its subdirectories, and apply the settings it specifies to >> | the file's buffer. Emacs searches for `.dir-locals.el' starting in the >> | directory of the visited file, and moving up the directory tree. (To >> | avoid slowdown, this search is skipped for remote files.) >> >> I wouldn't like to overrule this on my own. If you believe it is >> important, you might ask on the emacs-devel mailing list for this. Maybe >> one could enable this by a custom variable. > > I have reported this as a bug.ยน I think it is important enough for the > .dir-locals.el to be loaded, otherwise, users end up editing files in a > way non-conforming to the requirement of a project and editing is the > most important reason to use tramp for the comfort of Emacs. > > Would be interesting to hear your thought and input. Thanks.
Loading .dir-locals.el is a non-trivial operation, because several directories must be traversed for existence check of such a file, starting at the current directory, and navigating up to "/". This might be time-consuming. I suspect, this is the reason it has been disabled for remote directories. One could improve the checks by adding a new file name handler for searching and loading of .dir-locals.el. This would allow to apply all checks at once on the remote side, with a better performance. A similar file name handler was introduced for `vc-registered', which was improved by a special implementation for remote files. > Kind regards, > Leo Best regards, Michael. _______________________________________________ Tramp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tramp-devel
