Re: message-mode is now default?

[Miles Bader]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>     - message-mode does not use sendmail-function, causing once again
>       breakage for anyone who wraps their mail around it.
>
> That would certainly break it for me.
>
> I think this change should be reverted.

Any problems with message-mode should be fixed, of course, but it's
pretty clear that it's a better default.

One issue, of course is hook names; would it work to simply have
message-mode use the mail-mode hooks directly, and use variable-aliasing
to accommodate people that use the message-foo-hook names?

[I already call add-hook twice on all my various mail-related hooks, to
add them to _both mail-foo-hook and message-hook-hook.  So unless I
change something, they'd end up being added twice -- however, add-hook
suppresses duplicates, so I guess that wouldn't be an issue...]

-miles

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