From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Cc: 8158@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8158: Definition of auto-mode-alist
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 00:39:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimAKEv+3M9GHVBS+wJXqYuAZZb-cBOnGQmz04sF@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimuAK5Nnw5dQ3xvjB72q=oLSLOcSvte49LhRQfD@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
>
>> As I said in a previous message the user must be given some simple
>> control of this. In my opinion that means that some way to prioritize
>> must be used, please see my previous message.
>
> The user already has a way to prioritize, by removing or adding
> elements of auto-mode-alist as they see fit, in their .emacs or
> equivalent. When this is run, emacs has already initialised
> auto-mode-alist from autoloads, so they will not disturb the user's
> settings.
>
>> That would allow for
>> decentralized additions to auto-mode-alist (but you seem to have
>> missed that point?).
>
> I may have missed the point, but as far as I can see, everything you
> want to do can be achieved with the current system, and decentralising
> the initialisation of auto-mode-alist would not change that: I have no
> problems with my auto-mode-alist from modes whose settings are not
> centralised.
Yes, you have missed it. I wrote majmodpri.el to get around the
problem that some elisp files added things to auto-mode-alist. I got
some bug reports for nXhtml from some of those users.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-02 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-02 22:02 bug#8158: Definition of auto-mode-alist Reuben Thomas
2011-03-02 22:18 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-02 22:22 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-03-02 22:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-02 22:35 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-03-02 23:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-02 23:21 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-03-02 23:39 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2011-03-02 23:41 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-03-02 23:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-02 23:43 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-03-03 0:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-03 11:43 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-03-04 4:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-04 4:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-21 20:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-22 14:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-27 3:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-22 23:45 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-23 0:15 ` Stefan Kangas
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