From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Major mode weirdness. Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:59:45 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87d3hejj8p.fsf@UlanBator.myhome.westell.com> <87oc0y81tc.wl%v.plechinger@gmail.com> <87zkkhyku1.fsf@UlanBator.myhome.westell.com> <87k4bl99ef.wl%v.plechinger@gmail.com> <87oc0xyj26.fsf@gilead.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310594531 26476 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2011 22:02:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:02:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs To: Daniel Schoepe Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 14 00:02:03 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qh7VK-00011L-Se for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:02:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50618 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qh7VK-0006vh-3F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35286) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qh7TE-0006v8-U0 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qh7TD-0007HE-FJ for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:59:52 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth18.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.31]:51744) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qh7TC-0007Gi-Of for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:59:51 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 2426 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2011 21:59:48 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (209.85.161.52) by smtpauth18.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.31) with ESMTP; 13 Jul 2011 21:59:47 -0000 Original-Received: by fxd18 with SMTP id 18so2493951fxd.39 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.1.68 with SMTP id 4mr2333825fae.74.1310594385864; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.89.142 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:59:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87oc0xyj26.fsf@gilead.invalid> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 64.202.165.31 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81579 Archived-At: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Daniel Schoepe wrote: > At any rate, I guess the docstring for default-major-mode possibly > should say more than just "use `major-mode' instead" though. Indeed. In fact, I'm not sure deprecating `default-major-mode' in favor of `major-mode' was a good idea at all. It seems weird to me that setting it's default value via `set-default' is meaningful, but setting it's local value isn't. As an aside, I try to set everything possible through Customize, just in case some things are set up to trigger side-effects. -PJ