Re: Putting auto-image-file-mode in Options menu

[Juri Linkov]

> So I think you should leave the function `image-mode' unchanged
> and define a new function `image-mode-maybe' which does the new job.
> Then the entries in auto-mode-alist can call `image-mode-maybe'
> and `image-mode-maybe' can conditionally call `image-mode'.
>
> Want to try it that way?

I don't like this solution because it is too ad-hoc.
How about the following?

Currently the first line of the file can specify several modes:

     -*- mode: MODE-NAME; mode: MINOR-MODE-NAME;  ... -*-

But why can't `auto-mode-alist' allow to do the same?
If `auto-mode-alist' allowed to put a list of modes instead
of one mode then the solution would be simple:

(push '("\\.png\\'" . image-mode) auto-mode-alist)
(push '("\\.xbm\\'" (c-mode image-minor-mode)) auto-mode-alist)

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Juri Linkov
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