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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> so there is some kind of "globbing", apparently in the tools we use
>> on Windows.
> It's the FOR command that globs, and only inside the parens.

OK, thanks, so can we now agree that there is globbing performed by one
of the tools we use?
So the question is: does this globbing understand some notion of
"hidden" file (whether it obeys the "first dot" convention, of the
hidden-flag convention or any other).

>> So is there some way to keep .dir-local.el from appearing
>> in the expansion of %f/*.el, or otherwise to use some other way to list
>> the files that will exclude the .dir-locals.el file?

> There's nothing special in files that begin with a dot, as far as
> Windows shells or "globbing" is concerned.  And .dir-locals.el is just
> a normal files, apart of the fact that its name starts with a dot.  So
> I don't really understand what you are asking.

Whether there is something we can do to this file such that the globbing
will not include this file.


        Stefan