Case folding for auto-mode-alist (was: doc-view.patch waiting for installation)

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Oct 30 2007, Glenn Morris wrote:

> Tassilo Horn wrote:
>>      * files.el (auto-mode-alist): Allow mixed-case for pdf and dvi
>>      extensions.
>
> Apart from that. I don't think people using .dVi as a file extension
> should be encouraged... :)

There was some discussion about `auto-mode-alist' before the release
of 22.1.  IIRC it has been suggested to first go through it
case-sensitively and if no match was found, try it ignoring case.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/16071/focus=16288

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| From: Richard Stallman
| Subject: Re: python-mode.el doesn't associate python-mode with .PY files
| Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs
| Date: 2006-12-30 18:23:42 GMT
| 
|     What was the conclusion on how to associate .PY files with python-mode?
|     And what about .TXT files, .HTM files, .TAR files, and so on?
| 
| I think it is a mistake to do that, in general.
| I would not object to a user option to enable such matching,
| but it should not be enabled by default.
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