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23.1.50; default mode for xml files not correct

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: "Xah Lee" <xah <at> xahlee.org>
Subject: bug#4169 closed by Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> (Re:
 Default for editing XML files)
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:55:06 +0000

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Cc: 4169-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default for editing XML files
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:49:02 -0400

I've made nXML mode the default for editing XML files.

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From: "Xah Lee" <xah <at> xahlee.org>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 23.1.50; default mode for xml files not correct
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:33:27 -0700

On my Windows emacs, when i open a xml file, the default mode loaded is 
sgml-mode, not nxml.

This is reproducible with Emacs -Q with FSF's binary for Windows.

Since nxml is better, it seems the default should be nxml-mode.

PS here's some tidbits from Lennart.

On Aug 16, 5:49 pm, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Xah Lee<xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > is this a bug or intentional?
>
> It is one of those unintentional problems that has not got the
> official bug status ;-)
>
> I wrote majmodpri.el (part of nXhtml) to take care of this kind of
> problem and suggested that something like it should be included in
> Emacs. There has not been any positive response to it yet.
>
> The reason I wrote it was that this problem is much more prominent
> when there are multi major modes as an alternative too. (For an xhtml
> file for example you could use html-mode, nxml-mode, html-mumamo-mode,
> nxhtml-mumamo-mode etc.)

I'm not sure how emacs choose modes, or the policies, mechanisms, file 
locations...etc, or what majmodpri.el is supposed to do. Anyway, i thought 
this warrant a bug report for the record. Thanks.

 Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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