From 21fc3227634c720128206980c72080dfc825a3de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:08:09 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Mention syntax change in add-dir-local-variable
 (bug#32817)

---
 etc/NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index bc6791b05bc..2a609e40278 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -262,6 +262,12 @@ large files.  Now it also offers a third alternative: to visit the
 file literally, as in 'find-file-literally', which speeds up
 navigation and editing of large files.
 
+---
+** add-dir-local-variable now uses dotted pair notation syntax
+to write alists of variables to .dir-locals.el.  This is the same
+syntax that you can see in the example of a .dir-locals.el file
+in (info "(emacs) Directory Variables")
+
 
 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 27.1
 
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