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From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 45084@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45084: so-long mode vs. dired-view-file
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 17:24:12 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <376f3bbf8aa9df9efc2fc798077ea954@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9dfunti.5.fsf@jidanni.org>

On 2020-12-07 01:22, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> That's right. We stumbled into a file that triggers so-long mode.
> 
> Our whole rhythm is busted. And we have to go through hoops to finally
> do what just a "q" did.
> 
> So so-long mode and whatever dired-view-file calls should somehow make
> a deal not to mess up "q".

It's true that, by default, so-long changing the major mode is going
to cause key bindings for the original mode to not be available.  This
is one of the trade-offs we make -- we have the benefit that Emacs
isn't going to freeze up, with the cost that the file is being treated
differently.

I don't think it would be very practical to try to account for all of
the special cases that might arise in people's workflows, and try to
implement workarounds.  Adding `view-mode' support wouldn't be hard,
but I do worry about the slippery slope factor.

You can alternatively use:

  (setq so-long-action 'so-long-minor-mode)

And then the buffers would remain in view-mode, and "q" will work as
normal.


-Phil






  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-06 12:22 bug#45084: so-long mode vs. dired-view-file 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-12-07  4:24 ` Phil Sainty [this message]
2020-12-08  5:30   ` Richard Stallman
2021-06-06 10:32     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-07  8:14       ` Phil Sainty

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