From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: major mode in new buffers Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:17:17 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87oci5ev6a.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <2f8988ff1003300457w38ee4bf0h259cd7a7187298e0@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269966205 31586 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2010 16:23:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9?= Kyllingstad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 30 18:23:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NweDn-0000br-JF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:23:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NweDm-0007OF-Iq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:23:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NweBJ-0006Hg-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:20:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53722 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NweBF-0006ET-43 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:20:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NweBD-0002Jn-FV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:20:40 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out1.starman.ee ([85.253.0.3]:48456 helo=mx1.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NweBD-0002JR-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:20:39 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.68.10.cable.starman.ee [82.131.68.10]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9076C3F4098; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:20:32 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: <2f8988ff1003300457w38ee4bf0h259cd7a7187298e0@mail.gmail.com> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Ren=E9?= Kyllingstad"'s message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:57:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122923 Archived-At: > new buffers get default-major-mode. I would find it more convenient if > auto-mode-alist was used. > > Is there a disadvantage to that? You can see in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/115520/focus=115794 that the following code can be used for a new non-file buffer to set its major mode based on the buffer name: (setq-default major-mode (lambda () (if buffer-file-name (fundamental-mode) (let ((buffer-file-name (buffer-name))) (set-auto-mode))))) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/