From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org>, 4169@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4169: 23.1.50; default mode for xml files not correct
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:18:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfxbpvper.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50908170735s1bdbe62dk6af9202a163e4f36@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:35:29 +0200")
>>> I wrote majmodpri.el (part of nXhtml) to take care of this kind of
>>> problem and suggested that something like it should be included in
>>> Emacs. There has not been any positive response to it yet.
>>>
>>> The reason I wrote it was that this problem is much more prominent
>>> when there are multi major modes as an alternative too. (For an xhtml
>>> file for example you could use html-mode, nxml-mode, html-mumamo-mode,
>>> nxhtml-mumamo-mode etc.)
>>
>> I'm not sure how emacs choose modes, or the policies, mechanisms, file
>> locations...etc, or what majmodpri.el is supposed to do. Anyway, i thought
>> this warrant a bug report for the record. Thanks.
> Major modes are choosen by searching auto-mode-alist etc. The first
> hit is choosen. (Sometimes the lists are searched several times
> though.)
> majmodpri.el sorts the list so that the major modes (or multi major
> modes) that the user prefers comes first.
When we offer several different modes for the same language
(e.g. perl-mode vs cperl-mode), we should try to make auto-mode-alist
(and other such facilities) point to a function alias (e.g. html-mode)
which can then point to whichever major mode the user favors.
E.g. we should probably rename sgml-mode.el's html-mode to
sgml-html-mode, and then make (defalias 'html-mode 'sgml-html-mode) so
that the user can easily (fset 'html-mode 'my-html-mode).
Stefan
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2009-08-17 2:33 ` bug#4169: 23.1.50; default mode for xml files not correct Xah Lee
2009-08-17 14:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-18 2:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-08-18 2:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-18 18:55 ` bug#4169: marked as done (23.1.50; default mode for xml files not correct) Emacs bug Tracking System
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