From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: precedence of auto-mode-alist and magic-fallback-mode-alist
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:09:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvve79dk5o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475AB233.4090503@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:03:15 +0100")
>> 2. M-x browse-url-emacs RET http://www.gnu.org RET
>> 3. After a short time a buffer www.gnu.org pops up containing the HTML
>> source of the gnu.org home page. This buffer is in Org mode, because
>> auto-mode-alist takes precedence over magic-fallback-mode-alist (if I
>> save the buffer as "testme" then C-x C-f opens the file in html-mode).
>>
>> I don't remember if cases like this were considered when this precedence
>> relation was established. If not, is the above an argument against this
>> precedence relation, or just evidence that we can't always DTRT, or is
>> it a bug that can be fixed while retaining the current precedence
>> relation?
> Should not the rules be different for a file fetched from the net?
Indeed. We should use the content-type info provided in the HTTP
response, but we don't have any support for that right now.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-08 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-08 14:23 precedence of auto-mode-alist and magic-fallback-mode-alist Stephen Berman
2007-12-08 15:03 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-08 20:09 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-12-08 23:45 ` Jason Rumney
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