Re: files.el

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Generally I agree on the new precedence order you implemented
>> (i.e. -*- mode tag, interpreter, <?xml, auto-mode-alist).

I haven't looked at the code, but I just want to make sure we only look
at the first line and that a tar file whose first subfile starts with <?xml
will still be handled as a tar file, not as an xml file.

> While this is fixed (in my local copy meanwhile also for strip off suffixes
> like .orig) ...

Note that this stripping of .orig (and other things like .~NN.MM~) is
already possible.  I personally have the following for this purpose in my
.emacs:

(setq auto-mode-alist (append auto-mode-alist '(("\\.[^/.]+\\'" ignore t))))

Make sure this kind of thing still works (it's used by some packages such as
jka-compr).


        Stefan