GNU bug report logs - #23835
25.1.50; opening a file named ebrowse tries to start EBrowse

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ams <at> gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:33:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Found in version 25.1.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 23835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ams <at> gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23835: 25.1.50;
 opening a file named ebrowse tries to start EBrowse
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:37:37 -0400

   > From: ams <at> gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
   > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:32:06 -0400
   > 
   > When trying to do:
   > 
   > 	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?
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