From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Removing unloaded functions from auto-mode-alist. Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:56:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zmvu6ba2.fsf@xs4all.nl> <85ll7e68ei.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <854qe2ihhi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87d5spxzml.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <85k6mxe686.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85pswp9hsu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85hdi0tp4h.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114113521 12268 80.91.229.2 (21 Apr 2005 19:58:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Lute.Kamstra.lists@xs4all.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 21 21:58:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOhoC-0003Th-Nq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:57:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOhsy-0006RL-O2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:02:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DOho5-0004fa-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:57:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DOho4-0004fD-Ps for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOho4-0000fq-HN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DOhpa-0004YZ-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DOhmg-000273-22; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:56:22 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85hdi0tp4h.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:12:30 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36251 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36251 Why do we desperately need a special alias just in exactly that case where it really is likely to cause problems? The idea that it "causes problems" is based on a mistaken idea of how things ought to work. ALL the usual ways of invoking a mode for TeX should be defined by both AUCTeX and tex-mode.el. It woulod be a bug if they were different. Again: do you have knowledge of even a single instance where this alias has been used, promoted, or found convenient for or by as much as a single person? If these names are not really used by users, maybe we could these names in both AUCTeX and tex-mode.el.