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From: Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>
Subject: Re: Re: [BUG] .dir-locals.el broken links on cygwin
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:45:22 +0100
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To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir@sirma.bg>

Hi Vladimir and Jambunathan,

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir@sirma.bg> writes:
>
>>> Some of the .dir-locals.el files in the distribution are 
>>> symbolic links to another. On cygwin they come out as LNK files.
>>
>> The error I get is 
>> Directory-local variables error: (wrong-type-argument listp !<symlink>  \.)
>
> I find the symlink very problematic. I normally copy the contents of
> .dir-settings.el' to .dir-locals.el.

.dir-locals.el is now a copy of .dir-settings.el, which should prevent
this problem.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien