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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:17:23 -0500

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

The code does basically:

    (let ((buffer-file-name FOO))
      (set-auto-mode))

How could it "call the major mode function instead"?

        Stefan