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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	Phil Hagelberg <phil@hagelb.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ruby mode added
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:16:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd4fztq2q.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812101924.mBAJOA7G026325@mothra.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:24:10 -0800 (PST)")

> Not exactly a problem, but isn't the preferred style for the
> auto-mode-alist regexp to use \\' instead of $ ? 

It's not a question of style: $ is usually incorrect, tho it will
usually work just fine in 99.99999% of the cases (very few files have
\n embedded in their name).

> What's the latest on the policy for adding stuff to auto-mode-alist and
> interpreter-mode-alist?  Should it go in files.el or be autoloaded?

I'm favorable to adding it via autoload as long as its order on the
auto-mode-alist is not important.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-11  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-10 19:08 Ruby mode added Chong Yidong
2008-12-10 19:24 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-10 19:45   ` Will Farrington
2008-12-11  2:06   ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-11  7:09     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-11  2:16   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-12-10 21:16 ` Paul R
2008-12-11  2:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-12  4:10   ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-12 18:44     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-12 19:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-16 17:14 ` Phil Hagelberg

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