Subject: Re: bug#39190: 28.0.50; two buffers with same buffer-file-name (diff-syntax-fontify-props)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 22:23:28 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:12:03 -0500
> 
> > And if we have to modify them, then why not do TRT while at that,
> > i.e. call the major mode directly instead of setting some variable?
> 
> We set the variable in order to find out what mode to use.

Sorry, I don't understand.  I meant to ask why the code which sets
this new variable cannot call the major mode function instead?