Re: Recent attempts at standardizing major mode definitions.

[Luc Teirlinck]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

   > 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.

Sincerely,

Luc.