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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How can i enable webmode?
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 14:03:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200511120325.GA16588@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864ksm4rf9.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>

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On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 01:55:22PM +0200, H. Dieter Wilhelm wrote:

[...]

> Why would I download a package if I do not want to activate an
> advertised feature?  So this uncommon way can save unnecessary hassle, I
> hope.

Sometimes (actually, webmode is a nice example) you as a user
want to decide on a case-by-case basis which is the one you
want to activate on a HTML file. Perhaps via a file variable?
Perhaps manually? The installer just doesn't know.

Perhaps you don't want Emacs to decide at all based on the
file name, but on contents (I, for one, have this tendency).
Then you'd be miffed that Emacs, all of a sudden, uses some
mode on files named *.html.

Mode decisions are far too "interesting" for a simple installer
to take decisions for you :)

Cheers
-- tomás

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-11 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-10 10:02 How can i enable webmode? aprekates
2020-05-10 11:05 ` Jakub Jankiewicz
2020-05-10 14:40   ` aprekates
2020-05-10 15:35     ` 조성빈
     [not found] ` <CAMDYoXZKD6krOQXpX_4js16bn+MtS_imPBHHmLJ2qNEh0Z_toQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <008d9cd4-8d24-f19b-82ad-d5c1bf7a435f@posteo.net>
2020-05-10 15:43     ` Alexis Roda
2020-05-10 16:13       ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-05-10 16:42         ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 11:55           ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-05-11 12:03             ` tomas [this message]
2020-05-11 12:47               ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-05-11 15:02             ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 16:05             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-11 17:22               ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-05-10 16:55         ` Dan Sommers
2020-05-11 12:03           ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-05-11 14:01             ` Dan Sommers
2020-05-11 16:09             ` Stefan Monnier

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