Re: Add a separate mode for .dir-locals.el

[João Távora]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> A better option would be to have a base `lisp-prog-mode` and hen
>>>> derive emacs-lisp-mode from it.
>>> Exactly.  dir-locals-mode should share a parent with emacs-lisp-mode.
>> Yes.  Is this very hard to do?
>
> No, it should be straightforward.
> See sample patch below.

Indeed, quite nice.  Eli, would you also opposed to having .dir-locals.el
buffers use emacs-lisp-data-mode by default?  We could reuse it for
other things other than dir-locals.

João