Re: Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs. [Was: My usage of imenu is broken.]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  acm@muc.de,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 15:39:30 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > How do we know that this was the intent?  It could be either of these
> > two, whether you like it or not.
> >
> > If we want to know for sure, perhaps we need to introduce a new kind
> > of cookie, like 'force-mode: c++-mode' or somesuch.
> 
> eval: (c-mode 1)
> 
> ?

Using 'eval' is problematic because it isn't considered safe in local
variables.