Subject: bug#23835: 25.1.50; opening a file named ebrowse tries to start EBrowse

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:48:43 +0300

> From: [email-masked] (Alfred M. Szmidt)
> CC: [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:37:37 -0400
> 
>    > 	C-x C-f ebrowse RET
>    > 
>    > Emacs tries to be a bit too smart, and thinks that it should switch
>    > the mode on the file to ebrowse-tree-mode.  
> 
>    That's the intended behavior, since 'ebrowse' the program produces
>    files named by default EBROWSE, and that mode was programmed for those
>    files.
> 
>    OK to close this bug?
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to check that the file is infact a "ebrowse"
> file using a file local variable though?  And default to "text" if the
> file in question is empty? 

How is this file different from all the other files in
auto-mode-alist?  They all turn on the mode regardless of the actual
contents of the file.