From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8158: Definition of auto-mode-alist Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 00:39:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299110831 17132 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2011 00:07:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 00:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8158@debbugs.gnu.org To: Reuben Thomas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 03 01:07:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Puw4P-0006NB-8C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:07:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35704 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Puw4N-0002AM-PQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53057 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Puw4D-00026n-DV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:06:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Puw4B-0004NB-UY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:06:53 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:39293) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Puw4B-0004N0-Sh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:06:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PuveE-0006y5-Nz; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:40:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lennart Borgman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:40:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8158 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 8158-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8158.129910918626757 (code B ref 8158); Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8158) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Mar 2011 23:39:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Puvdy-0006xW-FB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:39:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f44.google.com ([209.85.215.44]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Puvdw-0006xJ-4a for 8158@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:39:45 -0500 Original-Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so182204ewy.3 for <8158@debbugs.gnu.org>; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:39:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=buEKKF9BdLLRfZmkX8AInZ0Y8mM1bus0kGvzxqR651s=; b=aKrONDYLMtGcGN9mQAVdj8IxkSkhPCSK/rX/q+uJkLaxDsvq/ua36iLAroffwcAS0P zWDE2FSWG+tRhFpAFV85/wzxvnE+TEHuwK46UMRqvg2tl1lpU9n2Rf/WyAAH8Owb7Wqk 793lCTmqROKHAE3hXK++wD3BbgK3kjYGJE7l8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=sirL7V7RTxdWkjRfNhqXyEj+YW/UGGBEsQ1ZfMpV5jzeczLikFTZSUYgoDuCSECQfs 97OkjXGmtkQYOQoEc694kGGZmNUhNBWe/ZIKE8w9SraZiftGnVyk70ztNdaN+b9ii3qb KnicXT5P3feD/W8L8Zssa45p71NVCEa7iJL+k= Original-Received: by 10.213.26.20 with SMTP id b20mr813132ebc.55.1299109178159; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:39:38 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.108.136 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:39:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:40:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:44536 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Reuben Thomas 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.