On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Martin Jambor <mjam...@suse.cz> wrote:
> As far as newbies are concerned, I think that grasping that .c files
> are C++ files is one of the easy things to learn about GCC compared to
> other necessary knowledge (which is something we should work on).
One more oddities compared to standard practice.
> If the problem is that your emacs opens gcc files in C mode instead of
> C++, add this to your .emacs file:
>
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("gcc/.+\\.[ch]\\'" . c++-mode))
More oddities: we assume Emacs, and we want people to add those things.
Are we sure we are worrying about newcomers, or just fighting to preserve
the way things used to be 20 years?
