Re: idea: comment-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 17 Nov 2001, Kevin A. Burton wrote:

> Current there are a lot of file types that have no major mode within
> Emacs.  A good example would be /etc/X11/XF86Config (for GNU/Linux
> fans).
> 
> I have written a `comment-mode' which prompts for a comment-start string.

Is it any different from what "M-x default-generic-mode RET" does?  Or 
perhaps x-resource-generic-mode is better in this case?  (See 
generic-x.el for more details.)

If one of these does what you want, perhaps we could arrange for that
mode to be turned on automatically for the files you had in mind.  See
auto-mode-alist on files.el.