Mercurial > emacs
changeset 9393:0bec3b6bac2f
Add a tip about enabling/disabling features.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 07 Oct 1994 23:42:52 +0000 |
| parents | 32186e807f02 |
| children | 802381617d14 |
| files | lispref/tips.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/tips.texi Fri Oct 07 21:44:51 1994 +0000 +++ b/lispref/tips.texi Fri Oct 07 23:42:52 1994 +0000 @@ -113,8 +113,16 @@ Compilation, and Occur redefine it in this way. @item -It is a bad idea to define aliases for the Emacs primitives. -Use the standard names instead. +When a package provides a modification of ordinary Emacs behavior, it is +good to include a command to enable and disable the feature, Provide a +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. 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. @item Redefining an Emacs primitive is an even worse idea.