bug#66702: Add easy customization for .dir-locals.el files

[Mauro Aranda]

On 23/10/23 14:16, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> Patch attached.
>
> I tried it out on emacs/.dir-locals.el, and one thing that I noticed 
is that
> it changes the order of modes by sorting them alphabetically.  I'm sure
> people won't like if their files will get so much changes especially
> when they intend to commit a change in a single value.

That's modify-dir-local-variable doing the sorting.

You get the same results by doing:
emacs -Q
M-x add-dir-local-variable RET nil RET foo RET t
M-x diff-buffer-with-file RET RET

Should we add a nosort option somewhere?