From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Kevin Rodgers'" <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: new buffer - should its mode reflect its name when the name matches auto-mode-alist?
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:14:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2460C0DD06EE4E898D61D81BA77529C4@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h9elm9$dk6$1@ger.gmane.org>
> >>> Haven't thought about this before, but I wonder if the mode
> >>> should respect auto-mode-alist when you create a new buffer?
> >>> There's no doubt a good reason or
> >>> two why we don't do this - just wondering.
> >>>
> >>> E.g. `C-x b foo.el', where there is no existing buffer
> >>> foo.el. The mode is
> >>> Fundamental; should it be Emacs-Lisp instead?
> >>>
> >>> (I realize that a new buffer need not be intended to be
> >>> saved as a file.)
> >>>
> >> As an end-user and not having contributed anything to
> >> Emacs myself, I would expect the buffer to "respect"
> >> auto-mode-alist, i.e. set the mode depending on the
> >> buffer name. However, I think the default behavior when
> >> creating buffers non-interactively should *not* respect
> >> auto-mode-alist.
> >
> > Yes, I meant interactively only, but should have made that
> > clear. Thx.
>
> I think I posted this in response to a request on
> gnu.emacs.help, back around 2008-11-18, but I can't find it
> via Google:
>
> (defadvice switch-to-buffer (around interactive-normal-mode activate)
> "When called interactively to create a new buffer not
> visiting a file, temporarily bind `buffer-file-name' and call
> `normal-mode'."
> (let ((existing-buffer (get-buffer (ad-get-arg 0))))
> ad-do-it
> (when (and (interactive-p)
> (null existing-buffer)
> (null buffer-file-name))
> (let ((buffer-file-name (expand-file-name (buffer-name))))
> (normal-mode)))))
>
> Not appropriate for src/buffer.c of course, but you get the idea.
Yes, you did - I see it now. You posted it on 2009-11-18, with Subject "emacs
mode line suggestions".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-24 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-22 14:31 new buffer - should its mode reflect its name when the name matches auto-mode-alist? Drew Adams
2009-09-22 14:47 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-09-22 15:07 ` Drew Adams
2009-09-23 20:50 ` Mathias Dahl
2009-09-24 21:07 ` Juri Linkov
2009-09-24 2:31 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-09-24 3:14 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-09-24 21:32 ` Juri Linkov
2009-09-24 22:01 ` Drew Adams
2009-09-25 0:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-25 9:04 ` Juri Linkov
2009-09-25 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29 23:11 ` Juri Linkov
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