From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs mode line suggestions Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:54:47 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <15962952-6180-41bd-abce-1b919aa55807@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <39353809-6edf-4b7e-aae2-e0dd4d614c61@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226994094 28842 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2008 07:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:41:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 18 08:42:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L2LEF-0000pe-QQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:42:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2LD7-00082t-DF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:41:21 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.eternal-september.org!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: news.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX1/Wdq3M2u22ujD91Dx+PDwsuKIYjLDmKExLKPJSRu+7p5eexpUzaACbWfljKq7DB/y3kjFm1DiXnedJKp1WfeO8R4mOo4EW4oyYeAJYAFudoqiKrZvdDQIQP7lhQCHaG5VPssUcnMIyAg== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:55:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18Yq+X3E4uSR0yhVRXn7LLD8FQ9nVCVdYQNl3AeinCKmA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:3qWbvts64NonDrFK22tASJiGocE= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164559 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59892 Archived-At: "B. T. Raven" writes: > Xah wrote: >> On Nov 17, 6:33 pm, "B. T. Raven" wrote: >>> But if a user is interested in working with Emacs rather than just >>> playing with it, she will know the suffix that will trigger the >>> correct mode. >> >> You missed the point. When a programer work with multiple langs, and >> when he create a buffer for scratch purposes, there is a need to >> switch to switch mode. > > If he creates it then he will have to name it. Let the mode depend on > the name. I can see (sort of) why assembler might need to be in a .c > buffer but you certainly don't need text blocks from many different > languages in the same temp buffer, do you? Why? On the off chance that > you really do need all of them then it seems that some new mixed mode > should be designed. Practically any web page in existence? mixture of xhtml, php, javascript etc. Mind you that web thingy, it will never catch on :-; nxhtml works well for that. I would certainly have used the scratch more if the language mode was a click away - now its second nature to do it using M-x.