normal-mode breaks VM recover-file

[mjchan . inbox]

With latest CVS emasc I upgraded to last week, I found that VM would
no longer be able to "recover-file" from an auto-saved copy
properly. After further investigation, VM would not proceed with
recovering because the major mode (VM mode) was reset to text-mode
during the recovery in normal-mode (in files.el). 

I found an entry in ChangeLog made by RMS on Aug. 9th that may be related:

        (normal-mode): Always set some major mode.

Apparently, with the current code (normal-mode) in files.el, the major
mode is always set (or reset if it was something else other than
default-major-mode).

I reverted back to the old behavior (by checking the find-file
parameter) and preserve the major mode, and it works as before. 

I'm not sure if this is a bug or is something that breaks the
compatibility. 

Thanks.
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MJ

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In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2005-12-14 on MCHANXP648L
X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.2) --cflags -I../../GnuWin32/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: chinese-big5
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: VM Summary

Minor modes in effect:
  mc-read-mode: t
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

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