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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 11:12:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvikyvwd2w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ed9jqrfp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 30 May 2024 17:56:26 +0300")

>> 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).
> "More common", maybe.  But that doesn't mean the other case doesn't
> exist or is not legitimate.

I don't doubt such cases exist.  I personally can't think of any, tho.
So, being hypothetical, I tend to consider it as a fringe problem which
is OK to solve with fringe solutions.

Can you point to non-hypothetical examples?


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-30 15:12 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
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 [this message]
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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