Re: Relics of removed dir-locals-file-2 feature in pretest

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kaushal Modi <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:34:07 +0000
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
>  We could remove the defconst, but just removing it is not enough,
>  because that would also remove its doc string.  So we will have to do
>  something else in order to keep that special file name documented
>  (e.g., so that "M-x apropos-documentation" would find it).  I'm not
>  sure we should invest such an effort: after all, what's there does
>  work, so why fix that which ain't broken?
> 
> .. because the documentation is incorrect. The dir-locals-file-2 variable is 
> useless at this point. 

Which part of it is incorrect?

> I am volunteering to remove references to dir-locals-file-2 everywhere and 
> mention the "-2.el" file instead in
> dir-locals-file doc-string and other places where dir-locals-file-2 is 
> currently mentioned. 

Thank you for volunteering, but I'm not yet sure we should do that.