From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 8158@debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Subject: bug#8158: Definition of auto-mode-alist
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:29:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnqPWWX-c=g8GF_Cn6oMfHC4sGzbK9=wy8a3zDdSept6A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvvczzwmdi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:22:03 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> ;; Note: The entries for the modes defined in cc-mode.el (c-mode,
>> ;; c++-mode, java-mode and more) are added through autoload
>> ;; directives in that file. That way is discouraged since it
>> ;; spreads out the definition of the initial value.
>
>> Isn't this a bit unmodular as Emacs continues to grow, and given loaddefs.el?
>
> I agree, but I think Richard disagrees. Also, order of entries in
> auto-mode-alist can be important, so autoloading those entries does not
> work for all cases. But for 90% of the cases, it's perfectly fine and
> indeed we do use it already in several cases.
>
> Such ordering conflicts are difficult to detect automatically: detecting
> them when we compile Emacs requires checking which regexps overlap
> (which is perfectly doable in theory, but we'd need a "regexp-to-DFA
> compiler" for that, basically), detecting them at run-time is too late
> (often it'd be wrong to ask the user to resolve such conflicts).
Does anyone object to just removing the above comment? And similarly
for `interpreter-mode-alist', I suppose.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-21 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-02 22:02 bug#8158: Definition of auto-mode-alist Reuben Thomas
2011-03-02 22:18 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-02 22:22 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-03-02 22:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-02 22:35 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-03-02 23:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-02 23:21 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-03-02 23:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-02 23:41 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-03-02 23:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-02 23:43 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-03-03 0:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-03 11:43 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-03-04 4:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-04 4:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-21 20:29 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-10-22 14:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-27 3:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-22 23:45 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-23 0:15 ` Stefan Kangas
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