Re: C file recoginzed as image file

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:25:47 +0100
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> > Basically, I think that determining the major mode for a given file should
> > neither give precedence to auto-mode-alist nor magic-mode-alist.  Instead it
> > should consider both.  Each one can associate a file with a set of possible
> > major modes (typically the set will be singleton) or say "don't know"
> > (which would be basically the set of all major modes).
> >
> > E.g. auto-mode-alist would give "don't know" for a file named "/b/c/foo" but
> > would give the set { perl-mode, prolog-mode } for a file named
> > "/b/c/foo.pl".  Then magic-mode-alist would give other sets of modes (based
> > on things like the #! interpreter name, the -*- ... -*- cookie, etc...).
> > If the intersection of the two sets is a singleton, then use that
> > major-mode, otherwise query the user to decide whether to believe the file
> > name or the contents.  After all, an inconsistently named file is generally
> > a sign that there's something wrong, so it's good to prompt the user
> > about it.
> 
> This is definitely the best proposal I've seen so far for solving this.

But not something we should do before the release, IMO, however
tempting it may be.