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bug#23835: 25.1.50; opening a file named ebrowse tries to start EBrowse
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#23835: 25.1.50; opening a file named ebrowse tries to start EBrowse |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:48:43 +0300 |
> From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
> CC: 23835@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:37:37 -0400
>
> > C-x C-f ebrowse RET
> >
> > Emacs tries to be a bit too smart, and thinks that it should switch
> > the mode on the file to ebrowse-tree-mode.
>
> That's the intended behavior, since 'ebrowse' the program produces
> files named by default EBROWSE, and that mode was programmed for those
> files.
>
> OK to close this bug?
>
> Wouldn't it be better to check that the file is infact a "ebrowse"
> file using a file local variable though? And default to "text" if the
> file in question is empty?
How is this file different from all the other files in
auto-mode-alist? They all turn on the mode regardless of the actual
contents of the file.