Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:28:20 -0600
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > And no, I don't consider telling users to turn off font-lock a
> > legitimate solution.
> 
> You suggested that some people might want to edit using
> fundamental-mode.  IMHO asking them to then turn on fundamental-mode is
> an adequate solution to that problem.
> 
> Stefan M pointed out the problem of conflicts in `auto-mode-alist'.
> I think this is a real problem, but one that would be mostly addressed
> by his proposal for generic-x.el to put its modes last in
> auto-mode-alist.
> 
> Do you find that solution acceptable or do you prefer that we revert the
> original commit?

My preference is to not add to auto-mode-alist at all if the user
didn't say-so.  But if you prefer reverting the changeset, I don't
mind that, either.  I still don't quite understand why Stefan thought
this variable was so ugly that it had to go.  (More generally,
aesthetics issues very seldom if ever justify backward-incompatible
changes, IMO.)