Re: Clojure mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  yandros@gmail.com,
>   bozhidar@batsov.dev,  dmitry@gutov.dev,  rms@gnu.org,
>   danny@dfreeman.email,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  manuel.uberti@inventati.org
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 11:51:37 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> To make a concrete suggestion: The database would probably consist of
> >> possible extensions to `auto-mode-alist', `magic-mode-alist' and
> >> `interpreter-mode-alist'.
> >
> > That'd be the anchor, definitely, at least for major modes.  It could
> > be a single function that is called if no suitable entry is found in
> > any of these variables.
> 
> What could be a single function?

That function would look up some database and suggest a package if it
exists.