Re: tuareg-mode and ocaml-mode
Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:45:23PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>> Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr> writes:
>>
>> >> If you want to avoid any problem in the future, just forget about
>> >> alternatives.
>> >
>> > Why?
>>
>> Link mess. It breaks all the time.
>
> According to my experience this is an exaggeration.
Yes, it is :-)
> Anyway, how do you think we should handle the automatic loading of the two
> modes on *.ml files? If only one of caml-mode or tuareg-mode is
> installed on a system then it would be reasonable to expect that
> the installed mode is the system-wide default for *.ml files.
> This can be achieved by having both of the respective packages
> install a file in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/, as it is currently
> the case with ocmal-mode (but not with tuareg-mode).
>
> What if both packages are installed? One possibility would be to decide
> now which of the two modes takes priority (by choosing the numerical
> prefix of the file name in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/). That is, if
> tuareg takes priority (this is of course what I would suggest :-)
> then ocaml-mode would install a file
>
> /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ocaml-mode.el
>
> and tuareg could install
>
> /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51tuareg-mode.el
Hmm, shouldn't it be 50 for tuareg and 51 for ocaml-mode?
> The lower-priority package should explain in its README.Debian file
> how a user can overwrite this setting.
That is, what to put in the .emacs file, right?
> BTW, I just see that currently I have on my system two startup files
>
> /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ocaml.el
> /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ocaml-nox.el
There shouldn't be two files.
> but I guess this will be solved anyway by the split.
I think so, yes.
--
Jérôme Marant
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