Re: org-mode and mode hooks.

[David Kastrup]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> I believe that it is possible to implement things completely
> reliably by letting major modes specify a list of major modes from
> which they want to inherit keywords and using a non-nil MODE
> argument.  But that would require more extensive changes to Font
> Lock and would also require some (much less extensive) changes to
> define-derived-mode.  I believe that a nil argument for MODE has
> been around for a while so for backward compatibility, one would
> still need to reasonably take care of such calls.  The question is
> whether the remaining problems are worth the trouble.

>From the description, I'd say right now probably not.  It seems like
we should try with your current fixes for the release.  If significant
problems get reported after the release, we might still reconsider
more invasive changes as long as we have enough time for testing them.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum