bug#4169: marked as done (23.1.50; default mode for xml files not correct)

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regarding 23.1.50; default mode for xml files not correct
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> 23.1.50; default mode for xml files not correct
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> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:33:27 -0700
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> On my Windows emacs, when i open a xml file, the default mode loaded is 
> sgml-mode, not nxml.
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> This is reproducible with Emacs -Q with FSF's binary for Windows.
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> Since nxml is better, it seems the default should be nxml-mode.
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> PS here's some tidbits from Lennart.
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> On Aug 16, 5:49 pm, Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Xah Lee<address@hidden> wrote:
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> > > is this a bug or intentional?
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> > It is one of those unintentional problems that has not got the
> > official bug status ;-)
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> > I wrote majmodpri.el (part of nXhtml) to take care of this kind of
> > problem and suggested that something like it should be included in
> > Emacs. There has not been any positive response to it yet.
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> > The reason I wrote it was that this problem is much more prominent
> > when there are multi major modes as an alternative too. (For an xhtml
> > file for example you could use html-mode, nxml-mode, html-mumamo-mode,
> > nxhtml-mumamo-mode etc.)
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> I'm not sure how emacs choose modes, or the policies, mechanisms, file 
> locations...etc, or what majmodpri.el is supposed to do. Anyway, i thought 
> this warrant a bug report for the record. Thanks.
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>  Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)
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> I've made nXML mode the default for editing XML files.
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