From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Ikumi Keita <ikumi@ikumi.que.jp>,
58075@debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Subject: bug#58075: Mapping file types to major modes
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:26:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a66m8jgn.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpmfjiicb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 25 Sep 2022 11:38:28 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> We have various ways to deal with those different cases, which are
> variously convenient/successful, but for things like `cperl-mode` vs
> `perl-mode` or `latex-mode` vs AUCTeX the usual solution is not
> satisfactory since it looks like:
>
> (defalias 'perl-mode #'cperl-mode)
Isn't the usual solution to just make `auto-mode-alist' map .pl to
cperl-mode instead of perl-mode?
Hm, well, that's
("\\.\\([pP]\\([Llm]\\|erl\\|od\\)\\|al\\)\\'" . perl-mode)
so it's a bit of a mouthful.
> We could have
>
> (add-to-list 'major-mode-remap-alist '(perl-mode . cperl-mode))
This area is already pretty complicated, so I worry that this is going
to make things even more confusing. But perhaps it's worth it?
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2022-09-25 15:38 bug#58075: Mapping file types to major modes Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-26 11:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-09-26 12:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-27 12:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-03 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-03 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-28 8:15 ` Ikumi Keita
2022-09-28 17:29 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-29 4:58 ` Ikumi Keita
2022-09-29 12:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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