Re: New problem with pcl-cvs and generic-mode.el

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> Since a recent rebuild of Emacs, I have run into a new problem.  The
> backtrace is:

Unbelievably, after sending this message, I was able to gain some
insight.  smerge-ediff (smerge-mode.el) presumes that major modes can
always be invoked with no arguments, but generic-mode requires a mode
type.  I can't understand why this is failing now, as that assumption
appears to be 5-6 years old.  As a workaround I changed jam-mode.el to
do 

  (setq major-mode 'jam-mode) ;; workaround for strange emerge interaction

when jam-mode is initialized.  But I can't tell if this is really the
"right" fix.  Advice appreciated; thanks in advance.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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