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Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally |
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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:23:39 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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.
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.
Stefan
- 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, 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, 2021/02/11
- 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 <=
- 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, 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