Re: position on changing defaults?

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > > Which is doable.  But what if a user wants to turn on flyspell-prog-mode
  > > by default for all programming languages? The only way to do that now is
  > > to add a bunch of `add-hook's in .emacs
  > > It would be nice to have a generic solution for all these (no idea what
  > > that might be...)
  > 
  > One solution is to introduce a new major mode `prog-mode' and then
  > make all other programming modes inherit from it.

Sounds good.  Just wondering if we could get all modes to do that, some
still want to be compatible with emacs-20...