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Quoting Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr>:

> There are two different questions here for the case that both
> ocaml-mode and tuareg-mode are installed on a system:
>
> 1) how can a user overwrite the default behaviour,
> 2) how can a system administrator change the default behaviour.
>
> When we discussed the two packages some time ago I was thinking of
> the first question. For this, it should be sufficient to explain
> in the README of ocaml-mode how a user should change his load-path.

Agreed.

> Concerning the second: Maybe put a symlink from 52ocaml-mode to
> 50ocaml-mode ? This way ocaml-mode would be loaded twice but IMHO
> this is a minor inconvenience. It would solve the problem with upgrades
> which Remi has pointed out.

I'm not sure this is the administrator's business ...

> In the current version in svn the README of tuareg-mode reads:
>
>   tuareg-mode is now automatically loaded on all files with filename
>   extension .ml\w?. If the debian package "ocaml-mode", which provides
>   an alternative emacs mode for (O)Caml files, is installed together
>   with the tuareg-mode package then tuareg takes precedence.  Users who
>   wish to overwrite this behaviour should consult the instuctions given
>   in the file /usr/share/doc/ocaml-mode/README.Debian.

Thanks.

--
Jérôme Marant



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