From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: major mode in new buffers
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:13:00 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100330.111300.426382691.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f8988ff1003300457w38ee4bf0h259cd7a7187298e0@mail.gmail.com>
+ René Kyllingstad <listmailemacs@kyllingstad.com>:
> new buffers get default-major-mode.
Actually, according to the doc string that variable is obsolete.
You're supposed to use (the global value of) major-mode instead.
> I would find it more convenient if auto-mode-alist was used.
>
> Is there a disadvantage to that?
One obvious one (I think) is that auto-mode-alist is geared towards
filenames, not buffer names. I also admit I'd find it somewhat creepy
if the mode of a new buffer were to depend on the buffer name.
Couldn't you just bind the global value of major-mode to a function
which picks the mode based on the buffer name?
- Harald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-30 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-30 11:57 major mode in new buffers René Kyllingstad
2010-03-30 15:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-30 15:51 ` René Kyllingstad
2010-03-30 15:13 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2010-03-30 16:07 ` René Kyllingstad
2010-03-30 16:15 ` David Reitter
2010-03-30 16:17 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-30 16:42 ` René Kyllingstad
2010-03-31 1:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 3:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-31 10:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 10:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 11:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 15:05 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-31 16:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-01 18:05 ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-01 21:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-01 22:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-01 22:45 ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-01 23:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-02 16:04 ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-02 20:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-02 23:04 ` Juri Linkov
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