Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:56:05 +0200
> Cc: johan.myreen@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> > Wasn't the idea that the user will tell us which files she wants to
> > visit in each mode?
> 
> I think we talked about making the option more granular (allowing to set 
> it not just to t, but to a list of modes). That will be easy to add.
> 
> But specifying the files as well is news to me. Wouldn't users who want 
> that level of detail just go and customize auto-mode-alist instead?

Maybe so, but that is not always easy nor user-friendly: getting the
regexps right is not trivial, many people make mistakes.  And I
thought this discussion at some point mentioned that Emacs should
suggest a mode for the file being visited? in which case specifying
the file is trivial.

I'm also not opposed to having the data ready somewhere in advance.