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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 17.10.2019 17:00, João Távora wrote:
> BTW, and on a tangent, a derived dir-locals-mode isn't the
> bestoption. In OO, a derivation that _removes_functionality is a
> no-no,it breaks "is a".  A better option would be to have a base
> `lisp-prog-mode` and hen derive emacs-lisp-mode from it.  But that is
> maybe impractical for other reasons and not justified by this case.

The lisp-mode-variables function does that job, more or less.

So one can just copy the emacs-lisp-mode definition, rename it to 
dir-local-mode and remove the unnecessary stuff (which will be at least 
a half of its definition).