Re: mode for preprocessed files

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  > > Currently C and C++ preprocessed files (.i and .ii, respectively) are
  > > opened in fundamental mode.
  > 
  > > Would anyone object if we would use c-mode and c++-mode for them by default?
  > > I've been doing this locally for a long time without any problem.
  > 
  > It might be OK, tho I wonder how often that's useful.
  > I.e. it's OK but put it way down the list, with a comment explaining why
  > .i and .ii are mapped to c-mode and c++-mode

Done.  But the list is created using autoloads... BTW, wasn't there a
plan to avoid doing that?

  >  (it wouldn't have occurred
  > to me that those extensions are actually used for C and C++ files).

They are the standard extensions that C/C++ compilers generate when you
tell them to save the preprocessed file.  Compilers accept files with
those extensions without wondering what the language is.