Re: My resignation from Emacs development

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:27:31 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> What has been implemented, "remapping", is a sort of extreme version of
> advice: it supersedes a symbol's function by some other function.
> What's more, it is the core Emacs functions which do this, not some
> wierd user setting.  CC Mode's symbol `c-mode' now sometimes means C
> Mode, sometimes c-ts-mode.
> 
> I don't think this is a good technical solution for whatever problem it
> was intended to solve.
> 
> I was not involved in the discussion which decided to implement this,
> assuming there was such a discussion.  I have been unable to find it in
> the archives, and nobody has given me a reference to it, despite it
> being relevant to this thread.

Remapping of major modes was introduced in Sep 2022, and was discussed
in bug#58075 (which was opened for that purpose).  From my POV, it's
just a convenient user option, so discussing it as a feature-request
bug report was appropriate.

Btw, I suspect that when Richard says "I proposed more than one idea",
he refers to a much more recent discussion, not about what happened
when mode-remapping was added to Emacs.