Re: New official XEmacs packages and SUMOs (2009-02-17)

Ville Skyttä writes: I think that's still the sanctioned way to enable VC. Some history, in case people would like to change this: I think the -hooks.el interface came originally from the Dark Age before auto-autoloads. The idea was to have one lightweight file that you could always require in your init file without pulling in a huge pile of machinery. A lot of packages used to have a -hooks.el to intialize them from the init file. XEmacs has a policy of not changing the UI just because a library's entry points are autoloaded. You need to explicitly run a command to initialize keymaps, hooks on standard commands, auto-recognize files, and so on. Ben had partially standardized this with his concept of behaviors, but unfortunately it's not well-documented and few behaviors have been defined. AIUI a behavior is an interface which allows you to specify that certain modes should always be on. What it adds to autoloads, custom, and the older -hooks.el mechanism is (1) a standard menu interface for *globally* enabling modes, and (2) it knows how to enable the mode in *existing* buffers, so you don't have to restart XEmacs. If somebody wants to do a lot of users a medium-sized favor, you could do worse than to study up on and document behaviors. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta