Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package proposal: git-modes

[Juri Linkov]

>> gitignore-mode is completely trivial, basically just font-lock keywords.
>
> Couldn't .gitignore-mode basically just be replaced with
> `conf-unix-mode'?  I have gitignore-mode running locally, but I'm not
> sure the syntax highlighting it does have is very helpful.  Why
> highlight "/" in "foo/bar", for example?

.gitignore is already font-locked after (require 'generic-x),
but specific gitignore-mode is still needed to fontify at least
important syntax of the negation character "!".
But why not add this to generic-x.el?