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

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:09:55 -0700

tags 23835 + notabug wontfix
close 23835
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> 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.

I agree with Eli here.  It makes sense to use the ebrowse mode in this
case.  I'm therefore closing this bug report.

If anyone disagrees, feel free to reopen.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas