From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Language identification Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:01:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87skfczqc8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <877hwnoi8d.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251648571 29059 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2009 16:09:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:09:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 30 18:09:24 2009 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 1Mhmxr-0004t3-1K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:09:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mhmxp-0004qt-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:09:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mhmql-00026k-8N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mhmqg-000255-Rm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46038 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mhmqe-00024d-HN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:33862) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mhmqd-0008Sd-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MhmqY-0007Hb-UD; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:01:39 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:12:41 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:114878 Archived-At: > Also there are conflicting extensions like e.g. ".pl" for both > Perl and Prolog (esp. SWI-Prolog). That's indeed an interesting case, where content-based mode choice might make sense. Thanks for reminding me of it. I'd prefer a very specific feature for choosing between these two languages to use of a general mechanism. The specific feature would probably be more reliable, and people would not be tempted to use it for other issues where it is not the right approach. But it would be even better to convince people to use distinct extensions.