Re: Package initialization

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

<bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:

>> So you are saying this is good style?  And how is this supposed to offer
>> the option that people like me don't want to have the keybinding without
>> setting it explicitly in .emacs.
>
> If it's a keybind on a specific mode, and if it doesn't conflict with the
> keys for that mode, then it's low-impact enough that it's alright.
>
> It's safe to assume that a user who installs SLIME would like a convenient
> way to start SLIME from lisp-mode. The cases where that's not true are
> unlikely to be bothered by an extra keybind. The cases that are bothered
> (because it conflicts with some personal keybind), will have to add a line
> to their init file (either to prevent activation of your package or to fix
> the conflict).

Any personal keybinding would override an autoloaded keymap entry anyway
since personal keybindings don't just magically establish themselves
without writing anything in an initialization file.

-- 
David Kastrup