Re: [External] : Re: command mode-specificity [was: scratch/command 064f146 1/2: Change...]

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> [ BTW, the better course of action in those cases is of course to mark
>   those commands obsolete and derive from special-mode (or at least to
>   align the code&behavior as much as possible with that of
>   special-mode).  ]

Indeed.

>> I'd planned on writing a little essay for the lispref manual about this,
>> once I'd gotten some more experience, because it's not immediately
>> obvious what's the right thing to do until you've evaluated a few
>> instances.
>
> Great, looking forward to it.  BTW, I think you can already put
> something in it and refine it later on; for the benefit of other people
> who might want to help the tagging process.

I've written up a new node about this stuff now.

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