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Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally |
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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 17:41:06 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: stefan@marxist.se, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:23:39 -0500
>
> >> Nothing terrible. The question for me was rather "what's the benefit?".
> >> But among the disadvantages, the most obvious one is that you can't rely on
> >> (require 'generic-x) to define your function.
> > Yes, but the docs of the package explicitly documents this, so this is
> > intended behavior. Like I said, the package is a bit unusual; but
> > being unusual doesn't mean it's bad. It gets the job done.
>
> I think unusual is bad unless there's some clear benefit.
This could be a valid argument 20+ years ago, when the package was
added to Emacs. But that ship has sailed.
> Having control over which modes are auto-activated via `auto-mode-alist`
> is good, so it's a part we can keep.
>
> Having control over which functions are defined doesn't seem to offer
> any benefit, so I'd rather get rid of this unusual aspect.
Didn't I say that I'm okay with the former? It's fun to argue, I
know, but since we agree, do we have to continue?
I only mentioned reverting the whole changeset because I sensed Stefan
Kangas was leaning towards it.
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, (continued)
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/11
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Stefan Kangas, 2021/02/11
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/11
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Stefan Kangas, 2021/02/11
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/12
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/12
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/12
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/12
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/12
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/12
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/12
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/10
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/10
- Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Matt Armstrong, 2021/02/10
Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/09