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24.3; Major mode spec in .dir-locals.el breaks dired

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Sergio Pokrovskij <sergio.pokrovskij <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17489: 24.3; Major mode spec in .dir-locals.el breaks dired
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 13:38:20 -0400

Glenn Morris wrote:

> It's useful for dir-locals to apply to some buffers not visiting files.
> It's not just dired, it's some VC buffers as well, etc, IIRC.
>
> I believe this issue reduces to a duplicate of
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/13685

Although we could probably treat this specific example specially, and
just say that it never (?) makes sense for a dir-local `mode' to apply to
non-file buffers.

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