Re: An idea: controlling the order of execution of elisp hook functions

[Richard Stallman]

    For example, both font-lock and major modes insert hooks into
    after-change-functions.  Ideally, the major mode hook should be run
    first, because the results of its syntactic analysis may well influence
    the font-locking (for example by setting the syntax-table text property).
    This is currently difficult to arrange.

The idea is a coherent one, but do we actually need it today?