From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Case folding for auto-mode-alist
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:30:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86640nnvxy.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvhck7mhxe.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed\, 31 Oct 2007 11\:19\:46 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Yes, you can get that by setting auto-mode-case-fold.
>> But for some reason that still escapes me, Richard is strongly opposed to
>> activating it by default.
>
>> Because it is too drastic for the actual problem, and likely to often
>> be wrong.
>
> Yes, that is your claim. I have seen no evidence that it will "likely" and
> "often" be "wrong". As a matter of fact I have seen no evidence that it will
> ever be "wrong".
.c vs .C for C vs. C++ files is probably the most relevant item, and
.Z vs .z for compress vs uh, pack? files could be one, though in
practice one would uncompress both of those "legacy" formats with
gunzip.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-21 2:38 doc-view compilation warnings Miles Bader
2007-10-21 8:55 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-22 9:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-23 13:32 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-23 14:30 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-23 15:54 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-23 16:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-23 17:50 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-23 18:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-23 18:41 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-23 19:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-23 20:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-23 21:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-24 7:59 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-24 11:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-24 15:24 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-26 10:52 ` doc-view.patch waiting for installation (was: doc-view compilation warnings) Tassilo Horn
2007-10-29 1:52 ` doc-view.patch waiting for installation Glenn Morris
2007-10-29 9:36 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-30 6:33 ` Glenn Morris
2007-10-30 18:07 ` Case folding for auto-mode-alist (was: doc-view.patch waiting for installation) Reiner Steib
2007-10-30 19:00 ` Case folding for auto-mode-alist Stefan Monnier
2007-10-31 7:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-31 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-31 15:30 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-10-31 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-24 13:55 ` doc-view compilation warnings Stefan Monnier
2007-10-24 14:32 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-24 8:33 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 8:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 8:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 8:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 8:11 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-24 8:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-25 2:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-25 8:09 ` Tassilo Horn
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