From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: generic.el Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:36:58 -0400 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3D3C890A.7080409@antenova.com> References: <20020718114145.61CA114A4@smtp.ether.antenova.co.uk> <200207182113.g6ILDwK25600@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027359023 12954 127.0.0.1 (22 Jul 2002 17:30:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Wh0n-0003Mp-00 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:30:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Wh10-0002SC-00; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:30:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ip163.antenova.co.uk ([212.135.40.163] helo=smtp.ether.antenova.co.uk) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Wgzx-0002KV-00; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:29:29 -0400 Original-Received: from antenova.com (sirius.ether.antenova.co.uk [192.168.73.101]) by smtp.ether.antenova.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F4264CE; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:29:20 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020310 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: rms@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2822 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2822 Richard Stallman wrote: > I could add something about generic.el to the Emacs Lisp Manual if > someone wants to write about it. > The docstring of the function `define-generic-mode' gives a fairly good explanation. There's a big comment at the top of generic.el that describes how to use it. All that's needed is to alert people to it's existance. How about:- generic.el allows simple modes with basic comment and font-lock support to be written easily. See generic.el. in the section on major and minor modes. -- Robert Thorpe Software Development Engineer, antenova Ltd - http://www.antenova.com/ The information in this e-mail is for use by the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete the message from your computer. No liability or responsibility is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). Opinions and views expressed in this email are those of the sender and do not reflect the opinions and views of antenova Ltd.