Re: Why is .ml associated with lisp-mode in auto-mode-alist?

[Alexis]

Wilfred Hughes <address@hidden> writes:

> I've noticed the following line in files.el:
>
> ("\\.ml\\'" . lisp-mode)
>
> This seems strange to me: .ml files are generally ML or 
> Ocaml. Git
> history says this line was added to Emacs in 1992 in commit
> 7b3f3dc2bba80d, but that commit doesn't suggest why this 
> association
> was added.
>
> I'm not aware of any lisp file formats that use *.ml files, and
> lisp-mode is not well suited for editing ML-family code.

Hmm, were MacLisp source files ever given a .ml extension?

(Yes, i would assume a .ml file was ML-family source, myself ....)


Alexis.