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

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2019-10-17 03:53, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 04:20:52 +0200
>> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
>>
>> Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> The attached patch creates a trivial dir-locals-mode, derived from
>>> emacs-lisp-mode, and removes Flymake backends in that mode.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Makes sense to me.
> 
> Isn't it more logical for this to be solved in Flymake itself,
> including letting users have Flymake enabled in their dir-locals
> files?

CC-ing João for an opinion.  My concern was mostly to give minor modes a clear 
signal that they can use to tell whether they are in proper emacs-lisp-mode, or 
in a dir-locals.el, as well as giving users a hook for .dir-locals.el files.