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: Re: Specifying mode in file variables trouble Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:48:16 +0200 Message-ID: <48D44850.4010708@gmail.com> References: <48D44761.6000809@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221871712 22599 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2008 00:48:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:48:32 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 20 02:49:28 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 1Kgqf9-0005Ol-Vl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:49:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53259 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kgqe8-0001Zm-FF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:48:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kgqe4-0001ZI-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:48:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kgqe3-0001Z6-Ff for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:48:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46922 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kgqe3-0001Z3-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:43304) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kgqe2-0002C1-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:65229 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Kgqe0-0005Qp-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:48:17 +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 In-Reply-To: <48D44761.6000809@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080919-0, 2008-09-19), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Kgqe0-0005Qp-9S. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1Kgqe0-0005Qp-9S af86bf64276e74dac2dfd38ba8f03e1e X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:103979 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > I got a question about specifying a multi major mode in a file like this > > > This fails with > > Ignoring unknown mode `nxhtml-mumamo-mode' > > Could we please compensate for this optimization ... ;-) > > In other words: Emacs adds "-mode". That is frustrating, but can of > course not be changed. However if Emacs finds that this fails, can it > then check for just the given "symbol"? > > That would allow the example above to work, and it would also help all > users that fail to notice this little twist in the manual. (I know I was > hit by this myself when I tried setting the mode this way.) Forgot to add a link to the question I recieved: https://answers.launchpad.net/nxhtml/+question/45721