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bug#18721: bug#18188: Please make it possible to have a directory-local
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#18721: bug#18188: Please make it possible to have a directory-local setting for auto-mode-alist |
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Sat, 29 May 2021 06:07:40 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> writes:
> Eli> So I'm asking why not keep the current syntax for this feature, and
> Eli> avoid introducing a new kind of special key? This would mean your
> Eli> example above will look like this:
> Eli> (nil . ((auto-mode-alist . (("\\.def\\'" . c-mode)))))
>
> I suppose it would work ok as long as the code also doesn't try to set
> auto-mode-alist locally in the buffer, both because that variable isn't
> safe, and because I think it doesn't make sense to set it buffer-locally
> anyhow.
I think everybody agreed that this was a good feature to add (with Eli's
tweaks), but as far as I can tell, it was never added. Tom, would it be
possible for you to re-spin this patch for Emacs 28?
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- bug#18721: bug#18188: Please make it possible to have a directory-local setting for auto-mode-alist,
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