Bug 18400

Summary:	should use some conf-mode for /etc/apt/sources.list*
Product:	Branch 4.1	Reporter:	Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component:	emacs22-common	Assignee:	Eugene Vlasov <eugvv>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	qa-4.1 <qa-4.1>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P2
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-12-30 02:08:07 MSK

emacs22-common-22.2-alt5

emacs loads a special conf-mode, when, for example, opening /etc/lilo.conf. That's good. It highlights the syntax and would allow some commands like "comment-region".

Suggestion: emacs should also use conf-unix-mode or conf-space-mode (or some other suitable one) for APT configuration files, in particular, for /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*: "comment-region" is a very needed command there (as well highlighting which helps distinguish commented and uncommented strings).

Comment 1 Eugene Vlasov 2008-12-30 22:04:13 MSK

I think, this is no emacs bug. Use 
# -*- Mode: conf -*-
in top of this files. 
Perhaps this is bug of `rpm -qf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*`

Comment 2 Eugene Vlasov 2009-01-24 08:56:06 MSK

Закрываю баг, как не являющийся ошибкой emacs.