bug#53764: 27.1; shouldn't ~/diary be in diary-mode?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> writes:

> Is there any reason why the ~/diary file is not read in diary-mode?
>
> Shouldn't it be in the auto-mode-alist?
>
> Maybe the reason is that the name of the diary is contained in the
> diay-file variable and can thus be changed?

I think putting any file that's called "diary" in diary-mode would
probably lead to too many false positives?  "~/.emacs.d/diary" (which is
the default on many platforms) could safely be put in diary mode,
though, but I'm not sure that would be all that helpful in practice...

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