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From: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
To: "René Kyllingstad" <listmailemacs@kyllingstad.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: major mode in new buffers
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:15:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F5871005-2E2E-4470-ADC5-AD8BFE88D862@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f8988ff1003300457w38ee4bf0h259cd7a7187298e0@mail.gmail.com>

On Mar 30, 2010, at 7:57 AM, René Kyllingstad wrote:
> new buffers get default-major-mode. I would find it more convenient if
> auto-mode-alist was used.

Maybe not auto-mode-alist, but an extended form of magic-mode-alist.

I often create "untitled" buffers to be saved later, and they start out in my default mode. 
Or, I edit some shell script that doesn't have a file name extension, so the major mode isn't set initially.

After the first few lines, wouldn't it be nice if magic-mode-alist was applied (if reliable!) and changed the major mode?  

We don't want an MS Word Paperclip ("You seem to be writing a letter!"), but some major modes are recognized reliably.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-30 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-30 11:57 major mode in new buffers René Kyllingstad
2010-03-30 15:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-30 15:51   ` René Kyllingstad
2010-03-30 15:13 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-03-30 16:07   ` René Kyllingstad
2010-03-30 16:15 ` David Reitter [this message]
2010-03-30 16:17 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-30 16:42   ` René Kyllingstad
2010-03-31  1:28   ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31  3:02     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-31 10:22       ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 10:23         ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 11:29           ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-03-31 15:05         ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-31 16:35           ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-01 18:05             ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-01 21:08               ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-01 22:24                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-01 22:45                   ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-01 23:10                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-02 16:04                       ` Juri Linkov
2010-04-02 20:19                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-04-02 23:04                           ` Juri Linkov

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