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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 20.10.2019 8:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Why not?  It would be very unusual and inconvenient for a major mode
> to require that it be manually turned on to be useful.

Like I explained, it wouldn't have to be turned on manually. In any 
case, the subset of such files that people routinely edit manually isn't 
big.

> That's why I said this issue needs to be investigated and the
> conclusions posted and discussed, before we can design a coherent
> feature to support such files.  Doing that in a hurry, based on a
> single incident and only on some vague ideas what other aspects of
> these files may need handling, doesn't sound wise to me, especially as
> the rest of the issues, whatever they are, cannot be urgent, judging
> by the lack of complaints.

It is indeed not urgent. I think it's an argument to postpone the 
proposed change (new major mode and stuff) until after Emacs 27. But not 
against doing it in general.