Subject: bug#8158: Definition of auto-mode-alist

From: Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:35:37 +0000

On 2 March 2011 22:30, Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> I think the control of this must be given to the user and that
> requires a central system.

>From the point of view of the user, the system is centralised:
auto-mode-alist and friends, which can be redefined at will.

> Just loading a new elisp file should not
> override old choices. (See above for clarification.)

Sure, but autoloaded lines from mode files aren't rerun when the mode
is loaded, are they? (At least, it seems not, because modes I have
autoloaded still only have one entry per file suffix in
auto-mode-alist.)

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