Re: Issues with major-mode-remap-defaults

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Ikumi Keita <ikumi@ikumi.que.jp> writes:

    > [ I added Stefan Monnier in Cc: list. ] Hi Tim, thanks for
    > notifying us. I confirmed that your recipe reproduces the issue.

    > I think AUCTeX should remove the entry (LaTeX-mode . latex-mode)
    > and alikes from major-mode-remap-alist, as I and Stefan discussed
    > in personal correspondenses last March. Stefan, do you have any
    > comments?

    > Supplementary note: AUCTeX once tried very hard not to touch such
    > Emacs default settings so that users who prefer particular
    > built-in mode can easily get rid of AUCTeX mode with simple
    > customization. But I expect it is safe to remove (LaTeX-mode
    > . latex-mode) in major-mode-remap-alist because AUCTeX now offers
    > only ELPA releases.  When the user want to disable the site-wide
    > activation of AUCTeX, they can suppress AUCTeX completely by (push
    > '(auctex nil) package-load-list) in early-init.el, which prevents
    > the removal in major-mode-remap-alist by AUCTeX init code.

Sorry to butt in, but what happens when a user uses only the git
repository for AUCTeX and not a ELPA package? Can AUCTeX be similarly
suppressed? I for one never use packages from ELPA and its friends.

Best Wishes,

Colin Baxter.