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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: João Távora <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  Clément Pit-Claudel
>  <address@hidden>,  emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:04:26 +0100
> 
> 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.

As I said, I don't want to introduce a major mode for this tiny
problem.  It's gross.

As for other things, I'm not sure that they matter (no one complained
about them yet), and I'm not sure we have a good idea of what exactly
does that entail.  If there's someone who wants to do the research and
suggest what, if anything, could or should be done for those other
files differently from emacs-lisp-mode, I'd welcome that, and we could
then talk about the best soltion(s).

Thanks.