From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs mode line suggestions Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:32:00 -0700 Message-ID: References: <15962952-6180-41bd-abce-1b919aa55807@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <39353809-6edf-4b7e-aae2-e0dd4d614c61@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <20081117234605.GC9335@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227000856 15208 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2008 09:34:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:34:16 +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 10:35:16 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 1L2MzF-00065A-55 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:35:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60774 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2My6-0004iu-7i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:33:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2MwU-0004Qc-4v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:32:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2MwS-0004Py-2m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:32:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50911 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2MwR-0004Ps-UA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46000 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2MwR-0005HB-E1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L2MwO-0005Fu-UO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:32:13 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:32:12 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:32:12 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) In-Reply-To: <20081117234605.GC9335@muc.de> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:59895 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Usually, creating a new file with C-x C-f already switches on the right >> mode. And even if Emacs somehow gets this wrong, it's a one-time event >> for that buffer. > > However, if I create a new buffer with C-x C-b foo.c, it starts in > Fundamental Mode, not C Mode. Is there a good reason for this, or did it > just happen? It irritates me quite a bit, but not quite enough to bring > me to fixing it. ;-) I think the reason is that auto-mode-alist applies only to file names. I suppose it is arguable whether that is a good reason or not, but "fixing" it to apply to buffer names would be a pretty far-reaching change. Maybe this would work for you: (defadvice switch-to-buffer (around interactive-normal-mode activate) "When called interactively to create a new buffer not visiting a file, temporarily bind `buffer-file-name' and call `normal-mode'." (let ((existing-buffer (get-buffer (ad-get-arg 0)))) ad-do-it (when (and (interactive-p) (null existing-buffer) (null buffer-file-name)) (let ((buffer-file-name (expand-file-name (buffer-name)))) (normal-mode))))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA