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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 19.10.2019 15:53, Clément Pit-Claudel wrote:
> Finally, what motivated me to propose a split was the fact that a fix was 
> needed in two places (Flymake and Flycheck), and likely in others (company and 
> completion-at-point-functions should ideally work differently in 
> .dir-locals.el; imenu doesn't make much sense there, ELisp syntax-highlighting 
> is sub-optimal for these files outside of `eval' forms, etc.).

Exactly.

xref-backend-functions and project-external-roots-functions come to mind 
as well. And they all will have to duplicate the check.