Re: Changelog mode entry in auto-mode-alist

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

  > The following patch, which was only checked into the trunk, changed
  > the change-log-mode entry in auto-mode-alist:
  > 
  > 2007-05-19  Dan Nicolaescu  <address@hidden>
  > 
  >     * files.el (auto-mode-alist): Change the regexp so that
  >     ChangeLog.unicode and ChangeLog.multi-tty use change-log-mode.
  > 
  > --- files.el        2007/05/17 01:12:55     1.899
  > +++ files.el        2007/05/19 23:44:43     1.900
  > @@ -1924,7 +1924,7 @@
  >       ("\\.[sS]\\'" . asm-mode)
  >       ("\\.asm\\'" . asm-mode)
  >       ("[cC]hange\\.?[lL]og?\\'" . change-log-mode)
  > -     ("[cC]hange[lL]og[-.][0-9]+\\'" . change-log-mode)
  > +     ("[cC]hange[lL]og[-.][-0-9a-z]+\\'" . change-log-mode)
  >       ("\\$CHANGE_LOG\\$\\.TXT" . change-log-mode)
  >       ("\\.scm\\.[0-9]*\\'" . scheme-mode)
  >       ("\\.[ck]?sh\\'\\|\\.shar\\'\\|/\\.z?profile\\'" . sh-mode)
  > 
  > Is this really desirable?  With this change, ChangeLog.sh (for
  > instance) opens in change-log-mode rather than shell script mode.
  > Maybe we should either revert this change (and use file variables to
  > specify the mode for ChangeLog.unicode and similarly-named files), or
  > move the change-log-mode entry further down in auto-mode-alist.

File variables are not very good for non-emacs hackers. We can do it
in emacs, but there are other projects that use the
ChangeLog.BRANCH_NAME convention, we should make using the right mode
easier for those projects.

I'd vote for moving the change-log-mode further down in
auto-mode-alist.