Re: Defaults for elisp-mode files

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Christopher Monsanto writes:

 > programs. Which is why I would suggest introducing a new file for such
 > behavior, that the load function WOULD pick up, but wouldn't be
 > uselessly set when editing files in the package.

It's *not* useless.  emacs-lisp-mode needs to know about
lexical-binding in order to invoke `eval' correctly, at least.
Editing modes for programming languages usually have provisions for
invoking translators, so this kind of consideration is not necessarily
unique to Lisp.