From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs. [Was: My usage of imenu is broken.]
Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 11:12:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvikyvwd2w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ed9jqrfp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 30 May 2024 17:56:26 +0300")
>> AFAICT it is a lot more common for file-local vars to be abused to
>> specify mere user preferences, than the reverse (i.e. where there really
>> is a technical reason why the file should be edited with js2-mode rather
>> than js-mode).
> "More common", maybe. But that doesn't mean the other case doesn't
> exist or is not legitimate.
I don't doubt such cases exist. I personally can't think of any, tho.
So, being hypothetical, I tend to consider it as a fringe problem which
is OK to solve with fringe solutions.
Can you point to non-hypothetical examples?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-30 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-28 10:53 My usage of imenu is broken Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-28 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-28 13:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-28 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-28 20:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-28 21:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-29 6:04 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-29 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-29 5:38 ` Yuan Fu
2024-05-28 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-29 11:16 ` Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs. [Was: My usage of imenu is broken.] Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-29 11:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-29 12:51 ` Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-29 16:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-29 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-29 17:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-29 19:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-29 19:45 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-29 19:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-30 5:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-30 11:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-29 22:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-30 5:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-30 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-29 12:41 ` Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs. [Was: My usage of imenu is broken.] Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-29 13:29 ` Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-29 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-29 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-29 19:17 ` Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs. [Was: My usage of imenu is broken.] Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-30 1:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-30 5:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-30 7:39 ` Po Lu
2024-05-30 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-30 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-30 14:33 ` Po Lu
2024-05-30 15:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-30 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-30 15:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2024-05-30 15:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-30 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-30 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
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