From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#58075: Mapping file types to major modes Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:26:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87a66m8jgn.fsf@gnus.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4092"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Ikumi Keita , 58075@debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 26 13:28:31 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ocmHn-0000oh-PJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:28:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56374 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ocmHk-0000GK-E6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 07:28:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ocmHL-0000G4-6A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 07:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:50398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ocmHK-0001aG-K6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 07:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ocmHK-0002DU-8q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 07:28:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:28:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 58075 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 58075-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B58075.16641916268456 (code B ref 58075); Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:28:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 58075) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Sep 2022 11:27:06 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49475 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ocmGQ-0002CK-1a for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 07:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:40252) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ocmGN-0002Bg-Ge for 58075@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 07:27:04 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References: In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=tiXtVxcj6CnHLExe0q2W1OPjksbQnPruSd0FxaVZRjA=; b=EVE/qbAqnOVm4f/rbh/y6rllhy QMs10wAbVAypxZjji3Rtc3CjSkDwF3zYSDMX22oA5vmg0Iu24giRWD96vkwUSGqhDDM1v7MGGzyaq oE/zhqLhvqrBf73oDWoTT00Jou28CqejPf28rDkY7jYWcNBQi8aIGEdXCAXr+ChkgQyo=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=joga) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ocmG9-0007SC-Ey; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:26:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 25 Sep 2022 11:38:28 -0400") X-Now-Playing: Fire Escape's _Abandon Head_: "Let's All Escape" X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:243644 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > We have various ways to deal with those different cases, which are > variously convenient/successful, but for things like `cperl-mode` vs > `perl-mode` or `latex-mode` vs AUCTeX the usual solution is not > satisfactory since it looks like: > > (defalias 'perl-mode #'cperl-mode) Isn't the usual solution to just make `auto-mode-alist' map .pl to cperl-mode instead of perl-mode? Hm, well, that's ("\\.\\([pP]\\([Llm]\\|erl\\|od\\)\\|al\\)\\'" . perl-mode) so it's a bit of a mouthful. > We could have > > (add-to-list 'major-mode-remap-alist '(perl-mode . cperl-mode)) This area is already pretty complicated, so I worry that this is going to make things even more confusing. But perhaps it's worth it?