Romain Francoise wrote:
Ah, thanks Sven. I had missed the connection with `magic-mode-alist' in
this report...
I don't think this is a bug, `magic-mode-alist' *voluntarily* overrides
`auto-mode-alist', it's mentioned in the docstring:
,----[ C-h v magic-mode-alist RET ]
|
| Documentation:
| Alist of buffer beginnings vs. corresponding major mode functions.
| Each element looks like (REGEXP . FUNCTION). After visiting a file,
| if REGEXP matches the text at the beginning of the buffer,
| `normal-mode' will call FUNCTION rather than allowing `auto-mode-alist'
| to decide the buffer's major mode.
|
| If FUNCTION is nil, then it is not called. (That is a way of saying
| "allow `auto-mode-alist' to decide for these files.")
`----
and in the manual:
| Sometimes the major mode is determined from the way the file's text
| begins. The variable `magic-mode-alist' controls this. Its value is a
| list of elements of this form:
|
| (REGEXP . MODE-FUNCTION)
|
| This looks like an element of `auto-mode-alist', but it doesn't work
| the same: this REGEXP is matched against the text at the start of the
| buffer, not against the file name. `magic-mode-alist' takes priority
| over `auto-mode-alist'.
So the problem here is that html-helper-mode should replace the
html-mode entry with one of its own in `magic-mode-alist', or just
remove it to let `auto-mode-alist' decide.
What do you think?
Now that I learned about magic-mode-alist ;-), that sounds absolutely right.
I think it's best for html-helper-mode to replace the html-mode entry in
auto-mode-alist; that needs to be done in its startup file,
/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50html-helper-mode.el.
I'm afraid my lisp knowledge is too limited to come up with a patch.
Would you like to write one?
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