Subject: bug#40573: 27.0.90; flymake-mode broken in scratch buffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:49:00 +0300

> From: João Távora <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:21:50 +0100
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>, Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], 
> 	Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> 
> So I'm thinking of introducing lisp-data-mode later on in 
> master, following Stefan's patch. And using it only for `dir-locals.el` 
> for now (and for my own files of course).
> 
> Is that OK with you?

No.  IMO a mode included in the core should handle more that just one
kind of file.  We've been through this, at least twice.  Why do you
keep pushing?  It only adds to aggravation.