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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: João Távora <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 09:25:00 +0100
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>, Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>, 
>       Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
>  I don't agree that it's a nice feature.  I don't even understand why
>  we give up so easily on elisp-mode support for such "data files",
> 
> Because elisp-mode is for emacs-lisp programs, 
> not lisp data. Can you concede that, or is that still controversial?

No, I disagree.  Lisp data is as much Lisp as Lisp programs.  There's
no distinction in Lisp between data and code.

This was also already said several times.