Re: Scratch buffer annoyance

[Juri Linkov]

>     On second thought, I think that it can be wrapped into
>     auto-mode-alist.  If someone does C-x b unnamed.c RET, chances are
>     that he won't find it strange to see the buffer in C mode rather than
>     fundamental mode.  And the only buffers that are not file-related tend
>     to start with *.
>
> You might be right, but the change seems too radical to me.
> I would rather introduce a new buffer-auto-mode-alist
> just to avoid the incompatible change.

Whose definition could be just

(defvar buffer-auto-mode-alist
  (append
    '(("\\`\*scratch\*\\'" . lisp-interaction-mode))
    auto-mode-alist))

-- 
Juri Linkov
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