Re: Mail mode and message mode hooks

[Davis Herring]

>> So there is really no need to work that hard at making message-mode work
>> like mail-mode.
>
> I am also a supporter of message-mode.  But a user moving from Emacs
> 23.1 to Emacs 23.2---a minor version upgrade!---should not experience
> breakage.  And as the feedmail example shows, there is at least one
> not-unreasonable setup that currently does break.

Does my suggestion not help here?  The merge of hook values could even
check for functions registered on each.  Even if the user loads both (so
the merge and defvaralias have already happened) and then tries to add the
same function to each, she will only get one copy.

Davis

-- 
This product is sold by volume, not by mass.  If it appears too dense or
too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during
shipping.