Re: arc-lzh-exe.el -- archive-mode on lzh self-extracting exes

[Chong Yidong]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I installed the arc-mode.el and mule.el changes.  Could we put off the
>     changes to auto-mode-alist till after the release?
>
> If that change is to simply recognize a new kind of archive, why delay
> it?

Since magic-mode-alist is called for *every* file opened in Emacs, an
error in any function we add to it can lead to a non-localized bug.

With the parts that are currently installed, a user can manually call
archive-mode, so it's hardly a major inconvenience.