bug#18188: Please make it possible to have a directory-local setting for auto-mode-alist

[Reuben Thomas]

I'd like to use a different major mode for _javascript_ files in a particular project from the one I use by default. At present this seems to be easy to achieve only by changing auto-mode-alist; changing this idempotently in .dir-locals.el is tricky.

As per http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2011-01/msg00363.html , where Stefan Monnier said he thought this was a reasonable idea and a bug should be filed, and as per http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2011-01/msg00579.html where Ted Zlatonov noticed that the original requester had not filed a bug, I'm requesting this feature.

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