From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Removing unloaded functions from auto-mode-alist. Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 00:47:18 +0200 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114038645 16716 80.91.229.2 (20 Apr 2005 23:10:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , Lute.Kamstra.lists@xs4all.nl, rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 21 01:10:41 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOOL2-0005A0-8C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:10:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOOPd-00019E-7C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:15:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DOO1T-0006BH-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:50:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DOO1R-0006AQ-FX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOO1R-0005eP-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:50:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.15] (helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DOO1H-0001nQ-QK; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8CC9239; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 00:47:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: David Kastrup X-Yow: I LIKE Aisle 7a. In-Reply-To: <85k6mxe686.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:57:29 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:36209 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36209 David Kastrup writes: > "Is using" is an exaggeration. I checked out version 1.1 (from 1990), > and the only "uses" for it are the aliases. I doubt that this has ever > been different (in spite of the following changelog entries), but if > somebody has older versions around, he can check this for historical > accuracy. The old RCS history was once available on fencepost, but unfortunately I can't find it any more. The text of the changelog suggests a different use in former days. > Even if at one time before 1990 it might have been the case that the > mode was not merely aliased, I doubt that pre-1990 compatibility is a > major concern nowadays. But you can't claim that AUCTeX is "owning" the names either, since they are clearly older. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."