Re: lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:03:23 +0200
>> Cc: Wojciech Meyer <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, 
>> address@hidden
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:50, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Non-simple, I suppose we could try to add an IF to exclude dotfiles or
>> somesuch, but it won't be pretty I think.
>
> I would object to even think about such a possibility, let alone get
> it into the repository.  All that to exclude a single file?

Two files, "." and ".." if that matters.

But I do not understand the objections. What does "pretty" have to do
with if it is possible, quite simple and stable?