From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: (elisp) Auto Major Mode Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:51:04 +0200 Message-ID: <4899F298.9050006@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218048697 18614 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2008 18:51:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 18:51:37 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 06 20:52:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KQo7P-00059c-0m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:52:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46803 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQo6T-0007us-GH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:51:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQo6O-0007rM-Kg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQo6M-0007nO-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37190 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQo6M-0007n9-Km for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:51:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:54026) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQo6M-0006Gh-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:51:14 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:62577 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KQo6K-0000ql-7e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:51:12 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080806-0, 2008-08-06), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KQo6K-0000ql-7e. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KQo6K-0000ql-7e 82825adefb75df22aa2e3af60a248ade X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102132 Archived-At: ... has a head line that says 23.2.3 How Emacs Chooses a Major Mode However neither this or (emacs) Choosing Modes gives a simple overview over the order in which different alternatives are tried. I think it would be good if the latter started with just that (and the former began with a link to that overview).