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On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:38:08PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> The reason for this little piece of code is so as to call (foo-mode 1) when
> people do (setq foo-mode t) in their .emacs and then load foo-mode.el.
> But people shouldn't use (setq foo-mode t), they should use (foo-mode 1)
> instead anyway.
> So I'd rather use that code less often rather than more often.

CAn we just get rid of it?

That particular `feature' has always seemed like something just as likely to
cause confusion, as to actually help people.

-Miles
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