Aside: Behaviors [was: Framework to change dumped ...]

Reply-To/MFT set. APA> are you aware of APA> (info "(xemacs)Behaviors") We need to discuss Ben's behavior implementation. IMHO, the "behavior mechanism" should not be user-visible at all! Rather it should be described as "global minor modes" (as we already do with font-lock, for example). I think it's an important enhancement to the idea of minor mode, and should be described as such. (And it's _not_ an "interface to packages" at all, not all packages supply minor modes, and some that do actually have a completely different main purpose.) I don't think it's possible to distinguish between behaviors and minor modes in general. Also, while the behavior mechanism is worth having now, we really should make a priority of integrating the behavior definition functionality into define-minor-mode (which would then become actually worth having, instead of being yet another GNU compatibility irritant). -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.