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bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes
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Ruijie Yu |
Subject: |
bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Jan 2023 21:33:59 +0800 |
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mu4e 1.8.13; emacs 29.0.60 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
>> Cc: 60929@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:18:48 +0000
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> > . given "foo.org.~10~" return the list ("foo" org-mode backup)
>> > . given "foo.org.gpg.gz" return ("foo" org-mode epa-file compress)
>>
>> I do not think that you can deterministically associate file extension
>> with major mode. Alternative major modes do exist for some file
>> extensions (like built-in python.el vs. python-mode.el). Just extension
>> list may suffice in the simplest scenarios.
>
> The intent was to use auto-mode-alist, of course. Or are you saying
> that you'd like, for example, to treat *.org files as Org files even
> if the user customized auto-mode-alist to use a different mode?
>
>> In addition, given "foo.txt.org.gpg.gz" may return
>> ("foo.txt" "org" "gpg" "gz") not stripping the first .txt as it never
>> affects how Emacs opens the file.
>
> Talking about "opening the file" again narrows the scope of the
> requested feature, IMO. We don't want to assume that the application
> would like to open the file. Besides, Text mode does affect how Emacs
> treats the file.
Another thing to consider is when the mode is not activated via
`auto-mode-alist' -- for example, via M-x major-mode. Consider what
happens to the proposed file extension list when "foo.txt" and
"bar.txt.bak.gpg" are manually activated as `org-mode'.
Best,
RY
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, (continued)
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/01/18
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, Ihor Radchenko, 2023/01/18
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/01/18
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, Ihor Radchenko, 2023/01/23
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/01/23
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, Ihor Radchenko, 2023/01/24
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/01/24
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, Ihor Radchenko, 2023/01/25
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/01/25
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, Ihor Radchenko, 2023/01/25
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes,
Ruijie Yu <=
- bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, Ihor Radchenko, 2023/01/25
bug#60929: 30.0.50; [FR] `file-name-extension' and backup suffixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/01/18