From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Case folding for auto-mode-alist
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:17:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtzo7l0rj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86640nnvxy.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed\, 31 Oct 2007 16\:30\:17 +0100")
>>> Yes, you can get that by setting auto-mode-case-fold.
>>> But for some reason that still escapes me, Richard is strongly opposed to
>>> activating it by default.
>>
>>> Because it is too drastic for the actual problem, and likely to often
>>> be wrong.
>>
>> Yes, that is your claim. I have seen no evidence that it will "likely" and
>> "often" be "wrong". As a matter of fact I have seen no evidence that it will
>> ever be "wrong".
> .c vs .C for C vs. C++ files is probably the most relevant item, and
> .Z vs .z for compress vs uh, pack? files could be one, though in
> practice one would uncompress both of those "legacy" formats with
> gunzip.
Thanks for playing: the code tries the case-non-folded name first and
only if that one fails, does it fallback to case-folding, so the above
examples all work correctly.
I.e. enabling auto-mode-case-fold only changes the behavior in the case
where the buffer would otherwise be put in fundamental-mode. So the only
possible downside is if the mode chosen by auto-mode-case-fold is worse
than fundamental-mode.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-21 2:38 doc-view compilation warnings Miles Bader
2007-10-21 8:55 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-22 9:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-23 13:32 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-23 14:30 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-23 15:54 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-23 16:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-23 17:50 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-23 18:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-23 18:41 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-23 19:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-23 20:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-23 21:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-24 7:59 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-24 11:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-24 15:24 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-26 10:52 ` doc-view.patch waiting for installation (was: doc-view compilation warnings) Tassilo Horn
2007-10-29 1:52 ` doc-view.patch waiting for installation Glenn Morris
2007-10-29 9:36 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-30 6:33 ` Glenn Morris
2007-10-30 18:07 ` Case folding for auto-mode-alist (was: doc-view.patch waiting for installation) Reiner Steib
2007-10-30 19:00 ` Case folding for auto-mode-alist Stefan Monnier
2007-10-31 7:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-31 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-31 15:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-31 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-10-24 13:55 ` doc-view compilation warnings Stefan Monnier
2007-10-24 14:32 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-24 8:33 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 8:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 8:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 8:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-24 8:11 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-24 8:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-25 2:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-25 8:09 ` Tassilo Horn
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