Re: My resignation from Emacs development

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Eli.

On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 17:48:20 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:27:31 +0000
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>

> > What has been implemented, "remapping", is a sort of extreme version of
> > advice: it supersedes a symbol's function by some other function.
> > What's more, it is the core Emacs functions which do this, not some
> > wierd user setting.  CC Mode's symbol `c-mode' now sometimes means C
> > Mode, sometimes c-ts-mode.

> > I don't think this is a good technical solution for whatever problem it
> > was intended to solve.

> > I was not involved in the discussion which decided to implement this,
> > assuming there was such a discussion.  I have been unable to find it in
> > the archives, and nobody has given me a reference to it, despite it
> > being relevant to this thread.

> Remapping of major modes was introduced in Sep 2022, and was discussed
> in bug#58075 (which was opened for that purpose).

Thanks, I've read it now.

> From my POV, it's just a convenient user option, so discussing it as a
> feature-request bug report was appropriate.

To me, it screems out "there be dragons, here", even from the very first
post.

> Btw, I suspect that when Richard says "I proposed more than one idea",
> he refers to a much more recent discussion, not about what happened
> when mode-remapping was added to Emacs.

OK.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).