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From: gildea@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (Stephen Gildea)
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Subject: Re: mail-mode isn't textual enough
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Date: 20 Oct 88 15:30:41 GMT
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    Date: Thu, 20 Oct 88 10:51 EDT
    From: Richard Mlynarik <Mly@ai.ai.mit.edu>
    Subject: mail-mode isn't textual enough
    To: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu

    ...
    
    Other modes which are `conceptually' text-modes (in particular, those
    which call text-mode-hook) could be similarly fixed.

I agree with you about mail-mode, but I don't think you have the
correct general criterion.  Should TeX mode bind M-s to center-line?
I say no.  If M-s is to do anything at all in TeX mode, it should
wrap the line in a \centerline command.  But TeX mode calls text-mode-hook.
    
    [This is far from the first time I've been screwed by the fact the
    emacs has only local and global keymaps, rather than a hierarchy of
    keymaps which inherit from each other...  Sigh.]

Agreed.

 < Stephen