Re: new buffer - should its mode reflect its name when the name matches auto-mode-alist?

[Deniz Dogan]

2009/9/22 Drew Adams <address@hidden>:
> Haven't thought about this before, but I wonder if the mode should respect
> auto-mode-alist when you create a new buffer? There's no doubt a good reason 
> or
> two why we don't do this - just wondering.
>
> E.g. `C-x b foo.el', where there is no existing buffer foo.el. The mode is
> Fundamental; should it be Emacs-Lisp instead?
>
> (I realize that a new buffer need not be intended to be saved as a file.)
>

As an end-user and not having contributed anything to Emacs myself, I
would expect the buffer to "respect" auto-mode-alist, i.e. set the
mode depending on the buffer name. However, I think the default
behavior when creating buffers non-interactively should *not* respect
auto-mode-alist.

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Deniz Dogan