From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: so-long and special major modes
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:48:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kmtGw-0002p3-2D@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06b2b38e-1d44-5a7e-b1c0-aac489989fde@orcon.net.nz> (message from Phil Sainty on Wed, 9 Dec 2020 09:08:45 +1300)
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> In general I felt it was necessary to white-list the modes for which
> it is acceptable for so-long to take action, because I don't think it's
> possible to automatically detect every mode in which it might be
> problematic.
How about if you try activating for all except special modes?
It MIGHT turn out to be exactly right. And if not, you can override
as needed.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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2020-12-08 5:30 so-long and special major modes Richard Stallman
2020-12-08 20:08 ` Phil Sainty
2020-12-09 6:48 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-12-09 10:46 ` Phil Sainty
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