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Juri Linkov wrote:

>if `Info-mode' was able to set a literally visited Info file to Info mode,
>then no handler would be needed in desktop.el, because just calling
>`Info-mode' from `desktop-buffer-file' on a restored Info file would do
>exactly what `desktop-buffer-info' currently does.
>
>If all other special modes would do the same then no new variable like
>`desktop-buffer-mode-handlers' will be needed.
>  
>
This is true for buffers visiting a file only. It would not work for 
dired buffers.