Re: Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 19:59:23 +0000
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>,
>   Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> My intention was to make other maintainers, including he who wrote it,
> aware of what was at stake.

We are aware.

> There's a very old principle in Emacs not to interfere in user set
> options.

auto-mode-alist is NOT a user option, never was.  Emacs has been
tweaking its value for users' benefits for eons, and CC Mode does that
as well.

major-mode-remap-alist _is_ a user option, which is one reason why
solutions proposed back when Emacs 29 was in the works that involved
changing the value of major-mode-remap-alist were unacceptable to me.
The changes installed by Stefan don't touch major-mode-remap-alist,
probably for the same reason; instead, they introduce a new internal
variable and tweak that.

> That's what I see being violated here.

No, it is not.