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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:06:05 +0200
> 
> > 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.

Nothing that would stick like the file name does.  I assume we want a
solution that will not need any special handling of the file whenever
it is updated, to restore its "glob-safe" nature.