Subject: Re: bug#53764: 27.1; shouldn't ~/diary be in diary-mode?

From: Phil Sainty <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:16:50 +1300

On 2022-02-07 13:39, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> We could automatically add a file local variable when Emacs
> creates the (main) diary file for the user.

To me this seems *much* better than the "do nothing" option.

People who don't want it can just delete the file-local var,
or change it to specify a different mode.

It won't directly help people with pre-existing diary files,
but if the change is called out in NEWS then those users can
be alerted to the fact that they might want to make that
change manually.

-Phil