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Re: magic-mode-alist gets in the way


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: magic-mode-alist gets in the way
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:50:02 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

>     Perhaps it would easier if there were only one "list" --
>     auto-mode-alist -- and a way for an entry to specify a "file contents
>     regexp" instead of a file-name matching regexp.

> This would not give good results, because the idea is that
> ALL the regexps that match the contents should be tested before
> all those that match the file name.  To keep that working
> using just one list, people would have to be super-careful
> about the order of the list.

I can't think of a good reason why the content should always take precedence
over the file name.  If a file "foo.html" starts with "#!/bin/sh" it makes
perfect sense to edit it as an HTML file rather than a shell script.


        Stefan




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