Aside: Behaviors [was: Framework to change dumped ...]

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>>>>> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <[email protected]> writes:

    APA> are you aware of
    APA> (info "(xemacs)Behaviors")

We need to discuss Ben's behavior implementation.

IMHO, the "behavior mechanism" should not be user-visible at all!
Rather it should be described as "global minor modes" (as we already
do with font-lock, for example).

I think it's an important enhancement to the idea of minor mode, and
should be described as such.  (And it's _not_ an "interface to
packages" at all, not all packages supply minor modes, and some that
do actually have a completely different main purpose.)  I don't think
it's possible to distinguish between behaviors and minor modes in
general.  Also, while the behavior mechanism is worth having now, we
really should make a priority of integrating the behavior definition
functionality into define-minor-mode (which would then become actually
worth having, instead of being yet another GNU compatibility
irritant).


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