Re: Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs. [Was: My usage of imenu is broken.]

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

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

>>> Otherwise, it's impossible for two users who have different preferences
>>> to share that file.
>> How do I force the use of a specific mode when more than one can
>> handle the file?  It is possible that the file relies on some features
>> specific to that mode, so such use cases are not outlandish.
>
> AFAICT it is a lot more common for file-local vars to be abused to
> specify mere user preferences, than the reverse (i.e. where there really
> is a technical reason why the file should be edited with js2-mode rather
> than js-mode).

True, but this doesn't answer Eli's question.