Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:31:33 +0200
> From: "Dmitry Gutov" <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> Cc: johan.myreen@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2024, at 12:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
>  > What I think is important, though, is avoiding major mode functions 
>  > modiying auto-mode-alist at runtime.
> 
>  But CC Mode already does, and always did?
> 
> I don't think so: those alterations happen in 'autoload' blocks, which means 
> that it happens either during
> Emacs' startup, or during package initialization, if cc-mode is installed as 
> an ELPA package.

In any case, I don't understand what is so sacred about
auto-mode-alist that it should not be modified at run time.