salt-mode depends on salt

[JeffAbrahamson]

Visiting a new (empty) .sls file invokes salt-mode, which, in the absence of a salt-minion, dies at line 233 or 244, "Error querying Salt minion". It seems reasonable that a developer should wish to edit an .sls file on a host that is not itself a salt minion.

The constant salt-mode--query-template also causes a failure if salt is not configured on the dev machine, since the import of salt.config fails.

Perhaps this is merely a documentation bug: failing to explain what is necessary on a development machine to use salt-mode.el.

[glynnforrest]

Thanks for the report @JeffAbrahamson.

This is definitely a bug, the mode should work without a salt-minion. The documentation features should be an added bonus if salt is installed.

I'll see about fixing this shortly.

[glynnforrest]

@JeffAbrahamson I've just pushed a commit that should fix this. Once melpa builds the new package, it'd be great if you could update and confirm this solves your problem.