Re: nxml-mode autoload?

[Arturius mac Aidan]

Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:

> Arturius mac Aidan <abysmal@waters.loch> wrote :
> 
>> These entries are in my .emacs
>> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>> ;; autoinsert.el
>> ;;http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue39/marsden.html
>>
>> (setq auto-mode-alist
>>       (append '(("\\.h$" . c++-mode)
>>                 ("\\.cpp\\'" . c++-mode)
>>                 ("\\.moc\\'" . c++-mode))
>>               auto-mode-alist))
>>
>> (add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'auto-insert)
>> (setq-default auto-insert-query nil)
>>
>> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>> ;; www.thaiopensource.com/nxml-mode
>> ;; per the ~/.emacs.d/lisp/nxml-mode-20041004/README
>> (load "~/.emacs.d/lisp/nxml-mode-20041004/rng-auto.el")
>> (setq auto-mode-alist
>>       (append '(("\\.xml\\'" . nxml-mode)
>>                 ("\\.xsl\\'" . nxml-mode)
>>                 ("\\.rng\\'" . nxml-mode)
>>                 ("\\.xhtml\\'" . nxml-mode))
>>               auto-mode-alist))
>> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;EOF;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>>
>>
>> The first auto-mode-alist entries (for c++) work as expected.  the ones
>> for
>> nxml-mode do not work.  I can, however, start the mode with `M-x
>> nxml-mode<ret>'. Does anybody know why this is not working?
>>
> On emacs-wiki you can find this solution:
> 
>  (fset 'xml-mode 'nxml-mode)
> 
> There was a recent discussion on the french emacs group, somebody argued
> this solution was lame, 

If it works, it works. At least for now.

> and proposed the following: 
> 
>     (defcustom drkm-misc:magic-modes-to-delete
>         '(html-mode sgml-mode xml-mode)
>       "List of mode symbols whose entries to delete in
>        `magic-mode-alist'."
>       :type  '(repeat symbol)
>       :group 'drkm)
> 
>     (when (boundp 'magic-mode-alist)
>       (setq magic-mode-alist
>             (delete-if (lambda (cell)
>                          (memq (cdr cell)
>                                drkm-misc:magic-modes-to-delete))
>                        magic-mode-alist)))
> 
>     (push '("\\`<\\?xml" . nxml-mode) magic-mode-alist)
> 
> This works well, provided you load cl (before these commands) if it is not
>  already loaded:
> 
> (require 'cl)
> 
> I cannot explain these lines but they have to do with the
> "magic-mode-alist" interfering in some way with "auto-mode-alist".
> 
> hth,

To whom shall I report the bug, James Clark, or the Emacs developers?
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