Re: Major mode weirdness.

[Peter Münster]

On Wed, Jul 13 2011, Daniel Schoepe wrote:

> At any rate, I guess the docstring for default-major-mode possibly
> should say more than just "use `major-mode' instead" though.

Here a tiny patch (cross-post to emacs.devel):

=== modified file 'lisp/subr.el'
--- lisp/subr.el        2011-07-02 04:27:41 +0000
+++ lisp/subr.el        2011-07-13 21:31:03 +0000
@@ -1174,7 +1174,8 @@
 (make-obsolete-variable 'default-buffer-file-type 'buffer-file-type "23.2")
 (make-obsolete-variable 'default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows 
'cursor-in-non-selected-windows "23.2")
 (make-obsolete-variable 'default-buffer-file-coding-system 
'buffer-file-coding-system "23.2")
-(make-obsolete-variable 'default-major-mode 'major-mode "23.2")
+(make-obsolete-variable 'default-major-mode
+                        "use (setq-default major-mode ...) instead" "23.2")
 (make-obsolete-variable 'default-enable-multibyte-characters
       "use enable-multibyte-characters or set-buffer-multibyte instead" "23.2")

-- 
           Peter