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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2015-03-22 17:10:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2015-03-22 17:10:10 -0700 |
| commit | 0bfe915be7e31f556624f3f9bcae93a2d33e69a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 806568b864d7478aecc61f1992c126b6ccc75aa3 /etc | |
| parent | c3c4b758c6d3e33d7fa7621ba4a50ec75c121247 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-0bfe915be7e31f556624f3f9bcae93a2d33e69a6.tar.gz | |
* etc/PROBLEMS: Add entry about dir-locals and some auto-mounters.
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index c701ec4c8a6..8e5505ea74e 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ Known Problems with GNU Emacs -Copyright (C) 1987-1989, 1993-1999, 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation, -Inc. +Copyright (C) 1987-1989, 1993-1999, 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. @@ -469,6 +468,18 @@ full qualified domain name, FQDN. You should have your FQDN in the The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems. +*** Visiting files in some auto-mounted directories causes Emacs to print +`Error reading dir-locals: (file-error "Read error" "is a directory" ...' + +This can happen if the auto-mounter mistakenly reports that +.dir-locals.el exists and is a directory. There is nothing Emacs can +do about this, but you can avoid the issue by adding a suitable entry +to the variable `locate-dominating-stop-dir-regexp'. For example, if +the problem relates to "/smb/.dir-locals.el", set that variable +to a new value where you replace "net\\|afs" with "net\\|afs\\|smb". +(The default value already matches common auto-mount prefixes.) +See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-02/msg00461.html . + *** Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails. If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not |