bug#18205: Obsolete patterns in auto-mode-alist

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>]

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On 7 August 2014 03:51, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 23:05:33 +0100
> > From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> > Cc: 18205@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > If "_emacs" is to be supported, surely other similar patterns should
> > be added for other dot files?
>
> Which patterns are those?
>

For example, the patterns for bash's dot-files.


> Why do you think we support _emacs for DOS and Windows?
>

I'm not sure why you're asking me, you're the DJGPP maintainer! If you
meant it as an exercise, then I'd say: I have no idea where we support it
on Windows, where, post-Win 3.x (which we don't support), ".emacs" is a
valid filename.

I understood that DJGPP had long filename support too, but maybe that's not
universal? In which case, not only "_emacs", but other GNU dotfiles should
surely be supported with a leading "_"?

In other words, it looks like a quick hack to support the most
commonly-edited Emacs file that would suffer from this problem. I can't
tell whether it's still needed, and if it is, it should be extended
systematically.

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