Re: normal-mode breaks VM recover-file

[mjchan . inbox]

    > Why does Emacs think that Text mode is the right mode?  Can you set it
    > up to recognize automatically that VM mode is the right mode for these
    > files?

It was set to text-mode in normal-mode because of the
default-major-mode (mine is set to text-mode). The VM mode was set
when the command 'vm' is used to read a mail folder, which could be
any file (with content in certain mail folder type). VM uses
find-file-hook during recover-file and check if the
buffer being recovered is a VM folder by checking the major mode. If
it is not VM mode, VM skips. 

Should the major mode be preserved during recover-buffer? 

>>>>> On Tuesday, December 20 2005, Richard M Stallman said:

    >     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 don't remember which bug this fixed, but I am sure it was a bug.
    > Perhaps the bug was that if you delete the -*- line from a file and do
    > M-x normal-mode, it would fail to switch to Fundamental mode.

    > Why does Emacs think that Text mode is the right mode?  Can you set it
    > up to recognize automatically that VM mode is the right mode for these
    > files?