You know what? I was wrong, you're right. I thought this was a change to the core engine, but I looked again and see it's in the lisp. The user's ~/.emacs file

You know what? I was wrong, you're right. I thought this was a change to the core engine, but I looked again and see it's in the lisp. The user's ~/.emacs file can override this setting, so no hard fork is needed.