Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got the same problem with auto-fill sometimes. I switch that > mode on with text-mode-hook. When I visit a text file that has "mode: > auto-fill", it is effectively turned off. Maybe we should do > (some-minor-mode 1) for "mode: some-minor-mode" constructs. > > That would be hard, since the code doesn't know whether the mode > is a minor or major mode.
Can't you tell a major mode from a minor mode by looking at the argument list? > But worse than that, it is misguided. > > It would be a mistake to try to make this "work", since it is > misguided ayway. Minor modes such as auto-fill mode are personal > choices; files should not specify them at all. While I tend to agree with you in theory (for the case of auto-fill mode), the problem still bites me in practice. I don't control all files I visit. Other people might put "mode: auto-fill" in a file and that will cause problems for me. Also, it is quite clear that someone intends to turn auto-fill on in that case. So why not do that instead of toggling? > It might be useful to find a way to arrange a warning when files use > Mode: or -*-...-*- to specify minor modes. In general, there are examples of minor modes (Ralf and David gave an example) for which it is useful to turn them on (or off) for a certain file because of the _contents_ of that file. So it would be nice to have a mechanism to do this. Lute. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
