Re: python-mode.el doesn't associate python-mode with .PY files

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 12/28/06, Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sure, but if we had just added Stefan patch now, the rest of the patches
> would not have been needed "before the release".

Yes, of course. (BTW, I'm not particularly interested in this stuff,
or in getting it "in", just trying to be helpful.)

> Correct, but we have not had reports of bad effects of the simpler regexp.

Right.

> Ok. So we could detect _just_ JPEG via magic-mode-alist, supposing
> that format is sufficiently different from anything else.

Well, I don't really know whether it is common to find other image
files with no descriptive file extension.

> Agree ... for a _very limited set_ of image types, which cannot always
> be detected by their file suffixes...

I don't necessarily disagree... but I'm not sure either than doing
such a specific fix is better than going the generic route (which is
dead easy, as shown in the patch I just sent). I'm ready to be
convinced otherwise, though.

                   /L/e/k/t/u