Re: image.el doesn't associate image-mode with .JPG files

[Kim F. Storm]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman wrote:
>>     > Perhaps this can be solved by first doing a case-sensitive
>> scan through     > auto-mode-alist, then if that fails to find a
>> match do a     > case-insensitive scan.
>>
>>     Brilliant!
>>
>> It would handle that one case, but it would still produce false
>> matches.
>>   
> It would only produce false matches for cases where Emacs would have
> defaulted to Fundamental mode. Is that so bad, or am I missing
> something?

I don't see the problem either.

It would make Emacs DTRT in a lot more cases, at the expense of
_potentially_ doing TWT in a few obscure cases, such as
entering changelog-mode for a file named cHANGElOG.

I'm 100% in favour of your proposal (and consequently in 100%
disagreement with RMS -- on this issue).

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk