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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> AFAICT it is a lot more common for file-local vars to be abused to
>> specify mere user preferences, than the reverse (i.e. where there really
>> is a technical reason why the file should be edited with js2-mode rather
>> than js-mode).
> "More common", maybe.  But that doesn't mean the other case doesn't
> exist or is not legitimate.

I don't doubt such cases exist.  I personally can't think of any, tho.
So, being hypothetical, I tend to consider it as a fringe problem which
is OK to solve with fringe solutions.

Can you point to non-hypothetical examples?


        Stefan