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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 19.10.2019 17:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> In the latter case, we
> will have to devise some way of turning on that new mode automatically
> in most cases.

I don't think that should be a prerequisite.

But even if we wanted that, do we have a lot of other similar files that 
are created by the user, as opposed to being auto-generated? In the 
latter case we can add a 'mode: elisp-data-mode' to the file while it's 
generated with little effort.