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Package unloading. Index next-line, previous-line, forward-line.

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command named @code{@var{whatever}-mode} which turns the feature on or
off, and make it autoload (@pxref{Autoload}).  Design the package so
that simply loading it has no visible effect---that should not enable
the feature.@footnote{Consider that the package may be loaded
arbitrarily by Custom for instance.}  Users will request the feature by
invoking the command.

@item
It is a bad idea to define aliases for the Emacs primitives.  Use the
standard names instead.

or less.  This way, if the files are compiled, the compiled files' names
will be 14 characters or less, which is short enough to fit on all kinds
of Unix systems.

@item
Don't use @code{next-line} or @code{previous-line} in programs; nearly
always, @code{forward-line} is more convenient as well as more
predictable and robust.  @xref{Text Lines}.

@item

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command named @code{@var{whatever}-mode} which turns the feature on or
off, and make it autoload (@pxref{Autoload}).  Design the package so
that simply loading it has no visible effect---that should not enable
the feature.@footnote{Consider that the package may be loaded
arbitrarily by Custom for instance.}  Users will request the feature by
invoking the command, which will often be constructed as a minor mode.

@cindex unloading packages
If your package contains functions which do modify oridinary Emacs
behavior, for instance by adding functions to hooks, define a function
@code{@var{feature}-unload-hook} where @var{feature} is the name of
the feature the package provides.  This function should undo any such
changes, e.g.@: by turning off a minor mode, when
@findex unload-feature
@code{unload-feature} is used.

@item
It is a bad idea to define aliases for the Emacs primitives.  Use the
standard names instead.

or less.  This way, if the files are compiled, the compiled files' names
will be 14 characters or less, which is short enough to fit on all kinds
of Unix systems.

@item
@findex next-line
@findex previous-line
@findex forward-line
Don't use @code{next-line} or @code{previous-line} in programs; nearly
always, @code{forward-line} is more convenient as well as more
predictable and robust.  @xref{Text Lines}.

@item