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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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: sergio.pokrovskij <at> gmail.com, 17489 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17489: 24.3; Major mode spec in .dir-locals.el breaks dired
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 15:01:21 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Sure.  And I'm sure some other user will argue that it makes sense to
> apply _her_ favorite major mode to any and all buffers.

Well, it really doesn't make sense AFAICS, but ok then, you don't want
the special-case solution of simply ignoring a `mode' dir-locals in
non-file buffers. So then we are back to http://debbugs.gnu.org/13685,
which would let people choose.

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