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Mapping file types to major modes

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp>, 58075 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: bug#58075: Mapping file types to major modes
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 08:13:34 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-09-26 13:26:48] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> We have various ways to deal with those different cases, which are
>> variously convenient/successful, but for things like `cperl-mode` vs
>> `perl-mode` or `latex-mode` vs AUCTeX the usual solution is not
>> satisfactory since it looks like:
>>
>>     (defalias 'perl-mode #'cperl-mode)
>
> Isn't the usual solution to just make `auto-mode-alist' map .pl to
> cperl-mode instead of perl-mode?
>
> Hm, well, that's
>
>      ("\\.\\([pP]\\([Llm]\\|erl\\|od\\)\\|al\\)\\'" . perl-mode)
>
> so it's a bit of a mouthful.

And that doesn't account for the files where the mode is found by
`interpreter-mode-list`, by `mode:` cookies, etc...


        Stefan

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