Re: My resignation from Emacs development

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > What has been implemented, "remapping", is a sort of extreme version of
  > advice: it supersedes a symbol's function by some other function.

I agree.  There are various cleaner ways to do this particular job.

  > 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.

This situation is complex because what was previously a single
operation has to be replaced by a choice of two partly similar
operations.  That is always somewhat messy, but we can make it less
messy than this.

One of the two new operations is, "Select C mode, no TS."
the other new operation is, "Select my usual mode for C."
They used to be entirely equiva;ent, but now they are not.

We could define a name for each of those operations.

Maybe there could be `c-no-ts-mode' and `c-ts-mode', as well as
`c-mode' which would follow the user's previously stated choice
between the other two.

  > The lack of available compromise is largely due to needing/wanting to
  > get the upcoming release released on time, without making any
  > significant changes to the code which might make an extra pretest
  > necessary.

That is not necessarily a horrible error if it is _temporary_.
What would be horrible is to let this hurried expedient decide
the commands of Emacs forever.



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