Re: Recent attempts at standardizing major mode definitions.

[Stefan Monnier]

>    > I believe that one should revert to the 21.2.90 behavior and no longer
>    > make the code expand into something different when the parent mode is
>    > fundamental-mode.
> 
>    Any reason for it ?  I hope you realize that `fundamental-mode'
>    is an alias for `kill-all-local-variables'.  The special-treatment
>    of fundamental-mode is an *optimization* (i.e. should not make
>    *any* difference in terms of behavior).
> 
> I know that fundamental-mode is just an alias for
> `kill-all-local-variables'.  But there are other differences between
> the two expansions than the fact that fundamental-mode is not
> explicitly called, for instance in the treatment of abbrev tables.

If there is a difference, it's a bug, so please report it.


        Stefan