Re: files.el

[Juri Linkov]

Daniel Pfeiffer <address@hidden> skribis:
>> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> skribis:
>> > How about adding a new user option for magic-string-regexp -> mode
>> > mapping.
>> 
>> I had considered this, but didn't want to invest so much time.  It's also
>> more complicated in the xml case, because xml-mode is only the default for
>> those, unless a more specialized mode comes from the finame.
>
> Even if RMS is opposed to this, I don't think the complexity would be superior
> to what we have now (except for a rather long html regexp).  On the contrary,
> set-auto-mode would become shorter.  And the whole thing would be more
> powerful, more Unix-like.

And set-auto-mode would get rid of any mention of too specific xml mode
whose explicit handling in such a general function as set-auto-mode is
not TRT.

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Juri Linkov
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