Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com> writes:

> Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Tags: patch
>>
>> Little patch for make customize-dirlocals use Custom-mode instead
>> fundamental-mode, Mostly intended for make this inherit and use
>> Custom-mode-hook.
>>
>> I have tested it and at the moment it does not cause problems with the
>> configuration made.
>
> Yes, I don't anticipate any real problems, but just using Custom-mode is
> almost entirely redundant since some of the settings that it performs
> are not relevant, and others get clobbered right away.
>
> Overriden:
> custom-mode-map, tool-bar-map, revert-buffer-function.
>
> Not relevant:
> custom--invocation-options, custom--hidden-state, custom-options,
> custom-local-buffer, widget-edit-functions.
>
> Redundant:
> custom--initialize-widget-variables.
>
>
> That just leaves us with the text-conversion-style and
> touch-screen-keyboard-function settings, which my guess is that they
> should've been added to custom-dirlocals-with-buffer too, and of course,
> running Custom-mode-hook.
>
> So I think it'd be better either to derive from Custom-mode, or find a
> way to avoid the redundant settings.

But making it derived won't include Custom-mode options anyway?

I made it a major mode but not derived from it.
I've included the Custom-mode options that are useful (as you pointed)
and run Custom-mode-hook.