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: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:22:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87zmvu6ba2.fsf@xs4all.nl> <85ll7e68ei.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <854qe2ihhi.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 1113953353 31100 80.91.229.2 (19 Apr 2005 23:29:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:29:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , Lute Kamstra , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 20 01:29:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DO28z-0003oL-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:28:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DO2DO-0007AJ-BG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:33:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DO2DH-0007AD-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DO2DF-00079w-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DO2DF-0006f2-8n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:33:01 -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 1DO25o-00053N-2M; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:25:20 -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 6B93E7F93; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:22:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: David Kastrup X-Yow: Is something VIOLENT going to happen to a GARBAGE CAN? In-Reply-To: <854qe2ihhi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:28:25 +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:36133 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36133 David Kastrup writes: > Forget it, Bub. TeX-mode and LaTeX-mode are already taken as aliases. > Who was the smart guy responsible for that? The annotations show: > > 1.3 (jimb 13-May-91): ;;;###autoload > 1.17 (eric 23-Apr-93): (defalias 'TeX-mode 'tex-mode) > 1.3 (jimb 13-May-91): ;;;###autoload > 1.99 (rms 16-Feb-99): (defalias 'plain-TeX-mode 'plain-tex= -mode) > 1.99 (rms 16-Feb-99): ;;;###autoload > 1.17 (eric 23-Apr-93): (defalias 'LaTeX-mode 'latex-mode) > 1.1 (root 28-Aug-90):=20 > > Ok, so it was "eric". It's much older than that, see lisp/ChangeLog.1. > At that time AUCTeX started to be sort of a contender, and AUCTeX used > TeX-mode and LaTeX-mode, quite likely with the intent not to conflict. Did AUCTeX already exist in 1985? I don't think so. 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."