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Re: Specifying mode in file variables trouble


From: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Subject: Re: Specifying mode in file variables trouble
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:33:52 +0200
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Richard M. Stallman wrote:
>     But it is not a major mode, that is why it does not end in "-mode". It
>     ends in "-mumamo" which stands for "multi major mode" here.
> 
>     Maybe it should still end in "-mode", but I think it could be more
>     confusing than helping actually.
> 
> Why do you think it is not a major mode?  A major mode is simply a
> command that specifies the overall way to handle the contents of a
> buffer.  I think this command qualifies.
> 
> So its name should end in `-mode'.

Ok, I am convinced. I have changed the name convention so that multi
major modes now ends in "-mumamo-mode" (instead of the old "-mumamo").




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