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#40573
27.0.90; flymake-mode broken in scratch buffer
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Reported by: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 13:20:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 27.0.90
Done: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #47 received at 40573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:48:55 +0100
> Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>, 40573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
>
> It is only important if we want this new mode to be turned on
> automatically in such files. If we want these files to be visited in
> Fundamental mode, or some other random mode due to their extensions,
> then this is indeed not important. But then .dir-locals.el, for
> example, will be visited in emacs-lisp-mode, something I thought we
> wanted to prevent?
>
> Yes, we do. And it's trivial to add an entry for .dir-locals.el
> to auto-mode-alist for that, as was suggested often. In hindsight
> choosing .el for that file wasn't great, but it's not very bad either.
>
> For files under our control, we have more options, including
> mode cookies and doing nothing.
What I was getting at was that maybe there are other extensions that
we'd like to trigger this mode. Also, Emacs has means for
automatically turning modes on, other than the file-name extension and
the mode cookie. Maybe some of them could be used in this case.
> We must have some body of common traits of these files to program a
> mode that is suitable for them.
>
> That's easy: lisp forms that can be `read`.
I meant traits that are relevant to what major modes do:
fontification, indentation, what is considered a defun, etc.
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