From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 45084@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#45084: so-long mode vs. dired-view-file
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:30:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kmVa1-00016i-Dr@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <376f3bbf8aa9df9efc2fc798077ea954@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (message from Phil Sainty on Mon, 07 Dec 2020 17:24:12 +1300)
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> > So so-long mode and whatever dired-view-file calls should somehow make
> > a deal not to mess up "q".
> It's true that, by default, so-long changing the major mode is going
> to cause key bindings for the original mode to not be available.
dired-view-file does something quite unusual: it visits a file and puts
it in View mode.
I think so-long needs to make a special case for View mode.
For instance, if View mode is in effect, it could (1) turn off View mode,
(2) switch modes however it does, then (3) reenable View mode.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-08 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-06 12:22 bug#45084: so-long mode vs. dired-view-file 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-12-07 4:24 ` Phil Sainty
2020-12-08 5:30 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-06-06 10:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-07 8:14 ` Phil Sainty
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