Re: Clojure mode

[Philip Kaludercic]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> How about splitting this into two separate tasks?  E.g. when a more
>> specific mode is found, a message is displayed in the minibuffer.
>
> FWIW, my ideal scenario looks like this:
>
> "You seem to have opened a Clojure file.  Would you like to install
> clojure-mode (yes/no/help)?"
>
> When the user types "yes RET", the package gets installed, loaded in
> the running session, and enabled in the relevant buffer.

This seems invasive, especially if the database has false-positives for
a user.  If anything, I think this kind of behaviour sound be opt-in.
But you are right, package-install is not sufficient, enabling the right
mode for all the relevant buffer(s) seems like the right thing to do.