Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 04:44:06 +0200
> Cc: johan.myreen@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> >> You wanted a user option - sure, no problem. But if taken the most
> >> straightforward approach, the option would only have effect after
> >> restart, and not on the current session. Otherwise it would need more
> >> information available somehow. You asked which data - the description
> >> was in the previous messages.
> > 
> > First, I still believe we can find a way of turning the enabled modes
> > on in the existing buffers.
> 
> Existing buffers vs new buffers is not the main issue. Getting the 
> auto-mode-alist or major-mode-alias-alist entries for modes that were 
> previously "off" is something we'd need a registry for.

I don't think I follow: what are the problems with simply adding
associations to auto-mode-alist?