Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2?

[Daniel Colascione]

On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:

> Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Aug 10, 2009, at 9:13 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> > > Carsten Dominik wrote:
> > > >    (add-hook 'imenu-after-jump-hook
> > > That would work just fine without eval-after-load or requiring  
> > > imenu.
> > > A hook does not need to be defined before calling add-hook.
> >
> > That works for hooks, but not for arbitrary data structures, like,
> > say, hs-special-modes-alist.
>
> For hs-special-modes-alist, if the mode is included in emacs, just add
> the initialization where in the definition.  That goes for other  
> similar
> structures.

Why should hideshow have to include a list of modes? And why should  
the preferred technique differ depending on whether the code is part  
of emacs or not?