Adding a .dir-locals.el to the project root directory about latex2e

[FrankMittelbach]

I use emacs but I would hate sentence-end-double-space. But I agree, a setup possibility in that direction is probably a good idea.

[davidcarlisle]

I use emacs all the time, but I'm not sure I'd want this. As @FrankMittelbach just commented even for emacs users it's not always clear what the settings would be and if we allow emacs then we would probably have to allow other settings for other editors as well. It would end up (presumably) being several files in several repositories.

I have one parent directory for all the latex3 github organisation repositories so if I did want such a file I could have a single one there but that is not under git so we'd probably end up with multiple copies under each of latex2e, latex3, hyperref...

[josephwright]

I have to say for me this feels like a 'local' setting, as it's about individuals not the repo - but I can live with it if it works for Emacs users.

[dr-scsi]

I use emacs all the time, but I'm not sure I'd want this. As @FrankMittelbach just commented even for emacs users it's not always clear what the settings would be

@davidcarlisle - I'm not sure if I understand the above correctly, but my understanding is that the project leaders agree once on the settings and then it is dictated for all of us since the settings apply to all the files in the project.

and if we allow emacs then we would probably have to allow other settings for other editors as well.

Probably, the question is what other editors core contributors use and how many other files you expect. There is EditorConfig which tries to circumvent this issue, but I don't think it worth the hassle to set it up for LaTeX repos (I've never used it, so can't tell if it works).

It would end up (presumably) being several files in several repositories.

Yes, this can happen, but my experience is that these config files don't change often, so it is sort of "fire and forget".

I have one parent directory for all the latex3 github organisation repositories so if I did want such a file I could have a single one there but that is not under git so we'd probably end up with multiple copies under each of latex2e, latex3, hyperref...

Yes, true. But this can also be an advantage if you want different settings for hyperref and others for latex2e etc.

[Skillmon]

I'd say if you do something like this it shouldn't be editor specific, so EditorConfig might actually be a good idea. But an Emacs specific file would then also call for files specific to all possible editors frequently used by LaTeX editors (so basically every LaTeX editor, plus the "good" general purpose text editors, including Emacs, VIM, VisualStudio, ... -- not something I'd like to clutter every LaTeX-project repository).