http://codereview.appspot.com/6460109/diff/3001/.dir-locals.el File .dir-locals.el (right):
http://codereview.appspot.com/6460109/diff/3001/.dir-locals.el#newcode6 .dir-locals.el:6: (indent-tabs-mode)) On 2012/08/19 16:02:31, Graham Percival wrote:
Does this mean what I think it means?
No, it doesn't. This is an association list written out by Emacs' add-dir-local-variable command. If it would have been written by hand, this line would better have looked like (indent-tabs-mode . nil) In Lisp, nil serves all the purposes that '() _and_ #f serve in Scheme. So this line turns _off_ indent-tabs-mode. Turning it _on_ in this context would have looked like (indent-tabs-mode . t) instead. That (indent-tabs-mode) is a rather confusing print form for (indent-tabs-mode . nil) might be one reason that Scheme decided to have a "false" boolean separate from '().
We should have *no* tabs in C++ files (decided in last year's GOP).
[Further complaint elided for brevity] Substituting the equivalent longer form for the sake of human readability is not likely a good idea since every additional call of add-dir-local-variable will again rewrite it in the short form. Similarly for adding a manual comment. You'll just have to live with it. This file is not really intended for human consumption, anyway. http://codereview.appspot.com/6460109/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
