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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Stefan.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 14:08:45 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I say there should be no such new mode.  The problems should be fixed in
> > fly*.el, which surely should be possible.

> It definitely does not belong in fly*.el which should know nothing about
> emacs-lisp-mode or any specific major mode for that matter.

Well, fly*.el needs to know _some_ things about its potential target
files.  For example, that they can be sensibly submitted to make.
Determining this shouldn't require emacs-lisp-mode to be fragmented.

I don't know much about these fly* modes (I don't use them), but somehow
they must contain a mechanism analogous to auto-mode-alist which
determines whether (and possibly how) to submit a file to make.  Surely
this mechanism is the place to filter out .dir-locals.el and similar
files.

>         Stefan

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).