Subject: bug#13815: Wrong mode for files with awkward shebang lines

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:10:45 +0200

Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> FTR, this issue would be fixed if auto-mode-alist took priority over
> interpreter-mode-alist. That's how it was before Emacs 22.1.
> I've never seen an explanation for why it was changed (ref bug#3354).

I thought it was because Debian changed the names of all their conf
files (many of which are shell scripts) to .conf?

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