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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9145e79: * lisp/files.el: Don't allow customiza
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9145e79: * lisp/files.el: Don't allow customization of dir-locals sorting |
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Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:32:57 +0200 |
> From: John Wiegley <address@hidden>
> Cc: Artur Malabarba <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 06:16:00 -0800
>
> >>>>> Artur Malabarba <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > In retrospect, this is not a good idea for the same reason that
> > `dir-locals-file' is a defconst, because it is important that this
> > behaviour be "uniform across different environments and users".
> > Sure, the user can still change the sorting with a hack, but we
> > shouldn't encourage them to change it.
>
> I'm inclined to agree with this; but did you mention it to Eli also, who had
> suggested using version<? I think string< is the right behavior, but since we
> had discussed it, I'd like to hear from him too.
I didn't suggest using version<, at least not directly. I said that
if people who use Unix startup scripts are used to this order, I have
no objection to using string< in our similar features.