From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to configure Emacs to autoload modes? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:45:13 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84k7fts6qu.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84znopv7pe.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045860744 25001 80.91.224.249 (21 Feb 2003 20:52:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:52:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18mK9f-0006V6-00 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:52:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mK7r-0001U1-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:50:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.arcor-online.net!newsfeed.r-kom.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1e9f2.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e9f2.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.233.242) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045860369 53370722 217.225.233.242 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:T8cc+CqkMuN/1K9UMx8ODq9cIec= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110505 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7007 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7007 David Masterson writes: >>>>>> Kai Großjohann writes: > >> (You could add the code to site-start.el if you want to avoid every >> user having to put it in their .emacs file.) > > In the case of auto-mode-alist, don't you think it's preferrable to > put the code in default.el so that users can choose to not load it via > inhibit-default-init? Well. People could still put (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist ...) statements into their ~/.emacs. The problem that I, personally, see with inhibit-default-init is that it's an all-or-nothing thing. There is no way to say "I like most of what default.el does, but please skip this setting here". That's why I my site-start.el contains a lot of functions, each setting up a specific package. Then my users can pick and choose. (Or choose and pick?) -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.