bug#9044: 24.0.50; File mode specification error: (error "Malformed -*- line")

[Juri Linkov]

>> It has the following entry in `auto-mode-alist':
>>      ("BROWSE\\'" . ebrowse-tree-mode)
>> but its case is ignored due to `auto-mode-case-fold'=t.
>
> Congratulations for finding the first such case.

Maybe auto-mode-alist should be case-insensitive only for entries
that don't contain upper case letters (i.e. to follow the logic of
`isearch-no-upper-case-p')?

> The fix is simple: rename `ebrowse' to `ebrowse.info'.

Yes, this would help.  I don't know why Info files in the `info' subdir
miss the `.info' file extension.