From: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: new buffer - should its mode reflect its name when the name matches auto-mode-alist?
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:47:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b501d5c0909220747m71565340m36be3026f91f5db8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C8A950B5FD0A4966BE5BF5C3593752B7@us.oracle.com>
2009/9/22 Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>:
> 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.
--
Deniz Dogan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-22 14:47 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 [this message]
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
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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