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 23:33:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87skfczqc8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <877hwnoi8d.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87k50mw83c.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 1251689737 25140 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2009 03:35:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:35:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 31 05:35:30 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 1Mhxg2-000066-4T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:35:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50377 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mhxg1-0000VS-J5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mhxdv-0007hU-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mhxdq-0007eZ-KP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49875 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mhxdq-0007eO-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52785) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mhxdq-0000nl-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Mhxdp-0006At-U5; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:13 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k50mw83c.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:48:35 +0300) 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:114894 Archived-At: > Also there are conflicting extensions like e.g. ".pl" for both > Perl and Prolog (esp. SWI-Prolog). > > Perhaps we should promote .plg for Prolog. I'd rather prefer to promote changing the Perl file extension since Prolog is older than Perl :) But I think neither is realistic. Why so pessimistic? I'm sure lots of people find this conflict annoying, and not just Emacs users. Solving it would help everyone affected, which mainly means Prolog users, since tools are more likely to assume Perl. We should not give up on the best solution without at least proposing it. Is anyone here active in the Prolog community?