Ralf Treinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:45:23PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> Ralf Treinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> If you want to avoid any problem in the future, just forget about >> >> alternatives. >> > >> > Why? >> >> Link mess. It breaks all the time. > > According to my experience this is an exaggeration.
Yes, it is :-) > Anyway, how do you think we should handle the automatic loading of the two > modes on *.ml files? If only one of caml-mode or tuareg-mode is > installed on a system then it would be reasonable to expect that > the installed mode is the system-wide default for *.ml files. > This can be achieved by having both of the respective packages > install a file in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/, as it is currently > the case with ocmal-mode (but not with tuareg-mode). > > What if both packages are installed? One possibility would be to decide > now which of the two modes takes priority (by choosing the numerical > prefix of the file name in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/). That is, if > tuareg takes priority (this is of course what I would suggest :-) > then ocaml-mode would install a file > > /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ocaml-mode.el > > and tuareg could install > > /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51tuareg-mode.el Hmm, shouldn't it be 50 for tuareg and 51 for ocaml-mode? > The lower-priority package should explain in its README.Debian file > how a user can overwrite this setting. That is, what to put in the .emacs file, right? > BTW, I just see that currently I have on my system two startup files > > /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ocaml.el > /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ocaml-nox.el There shouldn't be two files. > but I guess this will be solved anyway by the split. I think so, yes. -- Jérôme Marant
