Re: position on changing defaults?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > 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... 

We could get al the modes bundled with Emacs to do that.  For the rest,
clearly we have no control over them,


        Stefan