From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: user42@zip.com.au, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: arc-lzh-exe.el -- archive-mode on lzh self-extracting exes
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:44:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irbqhdi8.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Hf12x-0001gt-Vo@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri\, 20 Apr 2007 17\:53\:39 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I installed the arc-mode.el and mule.el changes. Could we put off the
> changes to auto-mode-alist till after the release?
>
> If that change is to simply recognize a new kind of archive, why delay
> it?
Since magic-mode-alist is called for *every* file opened in Emacs, an
error in any function we add to it can lead to a non-localized bug.
With the parts that are currently installed, a user can manually call
archive-mode, so it's hardly a major inconvenience.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-20 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87zm5etm0r.fsf@zip.com.au>
[not found] ` <E1HcAoA-0001sC-G4@fencepost.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <87tzvitz4z.fsf@zip.com.au>
2007-04-19 1:41 ` arc-lzh-exe.el -- archive-mode on lzh self-extracting exes Kevin Ryde
2007-04-19 2:01 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-04-19 23:17 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-19 23:58 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-20 1:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-20 1:42 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-04-20 10:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-20 21:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-20 22:44 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2007-04-21 9:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-21 18:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-21 19:22 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-22 23:46 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-04-23 14:25 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-20 10:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-20 10:44 ` David Kastrup
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