Re: New ELPA package ada-lite

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 02:56:58 -0700
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Would it make sense to have the lite mode in core?
>> 
>> I don't think so; that would mean any use of ada-mode would cause a
>> conflict in auto-mode-alist.
>
> Why would they conflict?  Or, IOW, why wouldn't it be possible to make
> them not conflict, assuming that no one will activate both modes in
> the same buffer?

ada-mode does this:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ad[abs]\\'" . ada-mode))


ada-lite-mode does this:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.ad[abs]\\'" . ada-lite-mode))


Whichever is done last ends up first in auto-mode-alist, and is the one
that (assoc ".ads" auto-mode-alist) returns.

See also Stefan's reply.

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-- Stephe