Re: Clojure mode

[Stefan Kangas]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> > FWIW, my ideal scenario looks like this:
> >
> > "You seem to have opened a Clojure file.  Would you like to install
> > clojure-mode (yes/no/help)?"
> >
> > When the user types "yes RET", the package gets installed, loaded in
> > the running session, and enabled in the relevant buffer.
>
> This seems invasive, especially if the database has false-positives for
> a user.

With false positives it would suck, of course.  On the other hand,
perhaps adding a "don't ask me again" would make it more tolerable.

> If anything, I think this kind of behaviour sound be opt-in.

One idea would be to make the less-invasive "message in minibuffer"
variant the default, and the more-invasive "in your face prompt"
variant opt-in.