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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs. [Was: My usage of imenu is broken.]
Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 10:18:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh6efxu9x.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867cfbswfg.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 30 May 2024 08:25:39 +0300")

>> Otherwise, it's impossible for two users who have different preferences
>> to share that file.
> How do I force the use of a specific mode when more than one can
> handle the file?  It is possible that the file relies on some features
> specific to that mode, so such use cases are not outlandish.

AFAICT it is a lot more common for file-local vars to be abused to
specify mere user preferences, than the reverse (i.e. where there really
is a technical reason why the file should be edited with js2-mode rather
than js-mode).


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-05-30 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-28 10:53 My usage of imenu is broken Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-28 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-28 13:57   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-28 18:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-28 20:46       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-28 21:28         ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-29  6:04           ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-29 11:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-29  5:38       ` Yuan Fu
2024-05-28 21:55     ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-29 11:16       ` Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs. [Was: My usage of imenu is broken.] Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-29 11:43         ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-29 12:51           ` Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-29 16:08             ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-29 16:38               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-29 17:56                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-29 19:22               ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-29 19:45                 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-29 19:59                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-30  5:01                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-30 11:02                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-29 22:10                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-30  5:51                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-30  5:44                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-29 12:41         ` Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs. [Was: My usage of imenu is broken.] Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-29 13:29           ` Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-29 14:20             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-29 15:04               ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-29 19:17         ` Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs. [Was: My usage of imenu is broken.] Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-30  1:32         ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-30  5:25           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-30  7:39             ` Po Lu
2024-05-30  7:53               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-30 14:18             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2024-05-30 14:33               ` Po Lu
2024-05-30 15:08                 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-30 14:56               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-30 15:12                 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-30 15:29                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-05-30 18:30                     ` Stefan Monnier
2024-05-30 16:06                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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