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local emacs configuration per directory

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You can configure specific emacs configurations for directories like projects adding a .dir-locals.el
This allows for things like setting variables or enabling modes for files in a specific directory.
A good example of this is for exporting my org-roam notes to my digital garden that runs on Quartz, I added the next to ~/notes/.dir-locals.el:

((org-mode . (
              (eval . (org-hugo-auto-export-mode))
              (org-hugo-base-dir . "~/projects/quartz/")
              (org-hugo-front-matter-format . "yaml")
              )))

You can also set this to run in subdirectories, for this case, if I wanted to run the previos code only in the journal directory it would be:

(("journal" . ((org-mode . (
              (eval . (org-hugo-auto-export-mode))
              (org-hugo-base-dir . "~/projects/quartz/")
              (org-hugo-front-matter-format . "yaml")
              )))))

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