On Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 10:54 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> 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.

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.

> --

Kaushal Modi