Re: dir-locals confusion

[PJ Weisberg]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
wrote:
>
> Recently (possibly with an upgrade to emacs 24.1.1) I'm frequently getting
> this message:
>     Error reading dir-locals: (file-error "Opening input file" "not a
> directory" "/cygdrive/q/.../tlock.c/.dir-locals.el")
>
> I see this frequently (but not always) under Cygwin and never under AIX
> 6.1.
>
> I do, of course, hack emacs, but I can't think of anything I've done that
> might have to do with dir-locals. Except for X configuration, I use exactly
> the same code on AIX and Cygwin.
>
> Since the obvious question is too vague, I'll simply ask this:
>     Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

What's `default-directory' when this happens?  My guess would be
"/cygdrive/q/.../tlock.c/", though I don't know how that would happen
if it's not a directory.

-PJ

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