Subject: Re: bug#58506: Use ".dir-locals.eld" and ".dir-locals-2.eld" when they exist

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 12:00:35 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> My only objection to "something like" this is that it appears to be Lisp
>> code, and people could get surprised when they try to add something that
>> isn't (eg. a regular `add-to-list' call that had a quote -- beginners
>> often get tripped up on these minor syntactic points).
>
> Then I guess `add-to-list' wouldn't be a good "directive" here.

But, yes, that's a good point about making these directives look too
much like Lisp code, so perhaps a different kind of syntax would be
nice...  but what?