From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8613: "mode:" for minor-mode breaks set-visited-file-name Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 22:08:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304476627 11012 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2011 02:37:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 02:37:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8613@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 04 04:37:03 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHRxW-0002YH-UE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 04:37:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52450 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHRxW-00041O-De for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 22:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47373) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHRxT-0003yz-NV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 22:37:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHRxS-00067Z-QH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 22:36:59 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57595) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHRxS-00067T-Hj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 22:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHRWQ-0003fj-56; Tue, 03 May 2011 22:09:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 02:09:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8613 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8613-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8613.130447490414073 (code B ref 8613); Wed, 04 May 2011 02:09:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8613) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 May 2011 02:08:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHRVo-0003ew-CV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 22:08:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHRVn-0003ei-3l for 8613@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 22:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47967) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHRVh-0003f7-Qq; Tue, 03 May 2011 22:08:17 -0400 X-Spook: INSCOM Security Council defense information warfare X-Ran: *:Y8g^.LOJjN8XrT|KwyqCOVd%=v8RK(t~7LR)^"`rWR;{+.Wl(w*\_,b>i,si,~'R&gJv X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 22:09:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:46180 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> The fact that "mode:" is allowed to indicate both major and minor modes >> in file local variables is problematic. Things would be much simpler if >> a different convention were used for minor modes. > > Agreed, So; shall we try to come up with a new convention for enabling minor-modes via file-local variables, and deprecate using mode: for that? All "mode:" does is funcall FOO-mode [1], which is nothing that can't be done with :eval, except the latter will prompt for confirmation. Rather than adding eg "minor-mode:", maybe safe-local-eval-forms could be extended with a regexp element matching something like "([a-z]+-mode)". [1] Well, it also ignores unknown modes.