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bug#65891: 29.0.91; Could the error msg be better for this?
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#65891: 29.0.91; Could the error msg be better for this? |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:11:58 +0000 |
> > I'm guessing that it's flagged as a "file mode specification" error
> > because it's from a mode hook?
>
> It comes from processing auto-mode-alist, see normal-mode:
>
> (with-demoted-errors "File mode specification error: %s"
> (set-auto-mode))
>
> > But major modes are not necessarily about file buffers.
>
> auto-mode-alist is only about matching file names to modes, so the error
> message looks fitting.
Fair enough, I guess. But I still have the question
of whether we can do better here.
Also, I think `C-x b foo' followed by `M-x org-mode'
behaves the same, though no file buffer is involved.
A mode hook doesn't have any necessary relation to any
file or to `auto-mode-alist'. It may be that Emacs
has chosen to relate the two in this way, as a kind of
shortcut, but there's no necessary connection, right?