From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 43fded1: Add lisp-data-mode for editing non-code Lisp data
Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 14:18:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd07nv832.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhary243.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Fri, 01 May 2020 19:52:12 +0200")
>> - ";; -*- emacs-lisp -*-"
>> + ";; -*- lisp-data -*-"
[...]
> That's a problem. Tramp must be backward compatible with Emacs 25 and
> later, which doesn't know of lisp-data-mode. Could you, pls, revert this
> part of your commit?
[ Do we also care about writing this file from Emacs-28 and then
reading it in Emacs-25? How 'bout restricting it so you can only use
it with Emacs-25-but-using-a-recent-Tramp? ]
[ Also, I assume the above problem appears because Tramp uses
`find-file-noselect` to access this file, so it could be fixed by
making it use `insert-file-contents` instead, right? ]
Reminds me of similar problems I've encountered with files where I want
to use some home-made derived major mode and where they then fail
miserably when used without the rest of my config.
Clearly it's too late to fix the above problem with Emacs-25, but for
the future, I think we should provide a way to specify not just a single
mode but a list of modes by order of preference, so if `lisp-data` is
not available it falls back to `emacs-liso`.
Stefan
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2020-05-01 17:52 ` master 43fded1: Add lisp-data-mode for editing non-code Lisp data Michael Albinus
2020-05-01 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-05-02 10:32 ` Michael Albinus
2020-05-02 10:45 ` João Távora
2020-05-02 11:20 ` Michael Albinus
2020-05-02 11:22 ` João Távora
2020-05-02 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 14:16 ` Michael Albinus
2020-05-01 18:40 ` João Távora
2020-05-02 10:51 ` Michael Albinus
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