Subject: bug#40573: 27.0.90; flymake-mode broken in scratch buffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:23:32 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:43:48 +0300
> 
> >> Another difference is that distinction between dynamic/lexical binding
> >> makes no sense for ELisp data files.  It's wrong to use "ELisp/d" as
> >> a mode name for ELisp data files where "/d" indicates dynamic binding.
> >
> > What do you propose to show as the mode-lighter instead?
> 
> Maybe "ELisp-Data" or more general "Lisp-Data".

I meant the /d or /l suffix.  I guess you are saying we shouldn't show
that because it makes no sense?

> > How would you propose to identify these files for turning on this
> > special mode?  They don't seem to have a clear-cut set of extensions
> > and/or file names.
> 
> Each package could add its data file name to auto-mode-alist.
> For example, bookmark.el could do something like:
> 
>   (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist (cons bookmark-default-file 'emacs-lisp-data-mode))

SGTM, thanks.