From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: etags.el tags-search use global syntax table Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:05:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185098698 10168 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2007 10:04:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Francesco Potorti` Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 22 12:04:56 2007 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 4.50) id 1ICYIz-0005HC-BC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:04:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICYIy-0007CU-Uc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:04:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICYHz-0006nS-2K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:03:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICYHw-0006n7-SC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:03:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICYHw-0006n4-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:03:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ICYHw-0001zE-8p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:03:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ICYJJ-0003rL-Gc; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:05:09 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Francesco Potorti` on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:58:00 +0200) X-detected-kernel: 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:75286 Archived-At: But I made another change, that is, the patched set-auto-mode returns the chosen mode. I think this may be useful for programs that want to know which mode a buffer should be in, but do not want to set it. >Also, if you want a way to do that, why make the signal be a list >containing t? Why not just pass t as the argument? Why make it a >list if the rest of the list is irrelevant? Yes, passing just t would certainly be clearer. I thought that having always a list would be simpler to use and possibly more flexible, but I would certainly make that change if you think it is best. Please use just t for that meaning, and document why it's useful.