Re: Package initialization

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07/20/2015 08:01 PM, Helmut Eller wrote:

> I have the impression that the left hand doesn't know what the right
> hand wants.  In the manual they say that it's ok to add things to
> auto-mode-alist, but then Stefan says that packages should not be
> enabled automatically.

I agree we should have clearer guidelines there. The third-party 
community has had these discussions a couple of years ago 
(https://github.com/skeeto/skewer-mode/issues/22#issuecomment-18301023, 
https://github.com/purcell/elisp-slime-nav/pull/6), and the average 
consensus landed on not even modifying hooks inside autoloads (not 
something I necessarily agree with, but it's an okay guideline). 
Changing auto-mode-alist is usually okay, but even that can lead to 
problems: https://github.com/purcell/mmm-mode/issues/36

Also see 
https://github.com/bbatsov/emacs-lisp-style-guide/#loading-and-autoloading.