Re: Subversion of user chosen major mode by Emacs.

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Andrea.

On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 15:45:37 -0400, Andrea Corallo wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> [...]

> > To be clear, what I find unacceptable is Emacs maintainers presuming to
> > override options explicitly set by the user with settings the maintainers
> > think are better.  That is the purpose of major-mode-remap-defaults.
> > There are other, better ways to set up c-ts-mode as the default default
> > mode for C files.

> Hi Alan,

> please assume the good faith of the other developers here.
> 'major-mode-remap-defaults' was added for (valid or not) technical
> reasons and it might very well come with (good or bad) consequences we
> can discuss, but there's no conspiracy here.

Just to be clear, I don't doubt the good faith of others, here.  When I
wrote about "the purpose of major-mode-remap-defaults" I meant it
literally, ascribing motivation to the variable, not to maintainers.
Sorry I wasn't clearer.

My intention was to make other maintainers, including he who wrote it,
aware of what was at stake.  There's a very old principle in Emacs not
to interfere in user set options.  That's what I see being violated
here.

> Thanks

>   Andrea

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).