From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Ikumi Keita <ikumi@ikumi.que.jp>,
58075@debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Subject: bug#58075: Mapping file types to major modes
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 08:13:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtu4ufi6i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a66m8jgn.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:26:48 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-09-26 13:26:48] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 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.
And that doesn't account for the files where the mode is found by
`interpreter-mode-list`, by `mode:` cookies, etc...
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-26 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-25 15:38 bug#58075: Mapping file types to major modes Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-26 11:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-26 12:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-09-27 12:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-03 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-03 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-28 8:15 ` Ikumi Keita
2022-09-28 17:29 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-29 4:58 ` Ikumi Keita
2022-09-29 12:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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