Subject: Re: bug#17489: 24.3; Major mode spec in .dir-locals.el breaks dired

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 12:56:58 -0400

> Or did you expect that cc-mode somehow gracefully does
> nothing when the buffer text is not a C-like program source?

That's a reasonable expectation (just as we've seen for for todo-mode).

        Stefan