D.Goel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A typical emacs package has little effect unless you explicitly invoke it. > > While that is supposed to be true, it has been very untrue in > practice, IME. Here are some examples of the top of my head: > > * Installing maxima makes my emacs N new functinos with ~ N namespaces, > and N is very large. > > * Installing ilisp makes emacs bind C-c <letter> which broke my .emacs. > > * Installing remem makes emacs bind C-c <letter> which broke my .emacs. > Remem did allow the user to override this binding in .emacs, but that > either means that each user should have to change their .emacs just > because the admin decided to install remem, or that the sysadmin > should have to modify init files. > > * Installing html-helper-mode luckily did not break my .emacs but it > did override some of my C-c <letter> bindings (though, luckily, only > in the html-helper-mode) which it is not supposed to do.
I'd file bug reports against all of them. Major modes aren't supposed to touch C-c <letter> bindings (only C-c C-<letter>), they are left to to end user. Peter
