Long time ago, a fix for autoloading markdown-mode was introduced (f6655ab) since the package lacked it by that time. However, autoloading was eventually added to markdown-mode. Later, Prelude's code was modified (2a38611) to autoload gfm-mode instead. This is rather opinionated, as markdown-mode itself defaults to regular markdown. Furthermore, this behavior is not documented, which leads to confusion.
I was about to submit a pull request to remove these lines, when I realized that the change might surprise users that got accustomed to having gfm-mode loaded without knowing why it has been the case so far and why it has changed.
Any suggestions?
Long time ago, a fix for autoloading
markdown-modewas introduced (f6655ab) since the package lacked it by that time. However, autoloading was eventually added tomarkdown-mode. Later, Prelude's code was modified (2a38611) to autoloadgfm-modeinstead. This is rather opinionated, asmarkdown-modeitself defaults to regular markdown. Furthermore, this behavior is not documented, which leads to confusion.I was about to submit a pull request to remove these lines, when I realized that the change might surprise users that got accustomed to having
gfm-modeloaded without knowing why it has been the case so far and why it has changed.Any suggestions?