Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:32:31 +0300
> Cc: johan.myreen@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> On 13/10/2024 18:53, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > In any case, I don't understand what is so sacred about
> > auto-mode-alist that it should not be modified at run time.
> 
> The ad-hoc behaviors the creates and offers the users, or the bugs like 
> 'C-h f' altering auto-mode-alist, or 'M-x js-ts-mode' (for example) 
> doing the same because it loads cc-mode.

We have such issues all over the place in Emacs: "C-h" commands that
load packages modify the global state.  There's nothing new here, nor
anything outlandish.