Re: Format-alist vs. minor mode

[tomas@tuxteam.de]

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On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 01:47:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I'm trying to switch on a minor mode via the format-alist feature, like

> > It works at first, when the regexp is recognized the mode function is
> > called... but then "fundamental-mode" sets in, kills all local variables

[...]

> If the minor mode depends on the file/buffer's contents, then it should
> survive a change in major-mode, right?  So you might want to make your
> minor mode permanent-local.

Thanks, Stefan. I figured that out thanks to the pointers provided by
Martin Rudalics. It was very surprising at the beginning :-)

I guess one wants to do that almost always when doing format
transformations à la format-alist, although those things are not very
related. This explains the misleading subject line.

Do you think a pointer in the doc is appropriate?

Regards
- -- tomás
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