Re: Why we SHOULDN'T add a separate mode for .dir-locals.el

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2019-10-19 08:28, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Answer; NOTHING!  I want all the facilities of Emacs Lisp Mode whilst
> editing a .dir-locals.el, not to have some overlord determine for me
> what I don't really want.

I anticipated this objection, to some extent, and that's partly why my original 
patch made dir-locals-mode inherit from emacs-lisp-mode.

But do you actually want warnings telling you that your file is missing a 
(provide '\.dir-locals) form and a ";;; .dir-locals.el ends here" line, as well 
as warning about a missing one-line package description at the top at the file, 
and a missing ";;; Code:" header?  These are part of "all the facilities of 
Emacs Lisp Mode" for people whol enable Flycheck and Flymake in that mode.