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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com, 49278@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:37:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tulfmsu4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr1gkflot.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:46:10 -0400)

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>,
>   49278@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:46:10 -0400
> 
> >>  (define-derived-mode lisp-mode lisp-data-mode "Lisp"
> >> -  "Major mode for editing Lisp code for Lisps other than GNU Emacs Lisp.
> >> +  "Major mode for editing Common Lisp code.
> > Here I'd prefer to mention CL without un-mentioning the other Lisps.
> > There's no reason to deny they exist or existed.
> 
> The question is to describe what this major mode is designed to do.

How do you suggest to do that in a concise enough way appropriate for
a doc string?

> People who want to look at Maclisp code (or other defunct dialects) will
> probably want to use `lisp-mode` for the simple reason that Maclisp is
> reasonably close to Common Lisp so it's the closest major mode we have
> to offer, but the user should not expect correct handling of Maclisp in
> those places where it differs from Common Lisp, because `lisp-mode` is
> written specifically for Common Lisp and not for Maclisp: compatibility
> with Maclisp has not been taken into account for more than 20
> years, AFAIK.

Did lisp-mode.el changed significantly during those 20 years? did
Maclisp change significantly?  If not, we don't have a problem more
that we had it back then, do we?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-30 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-29 18:06 bug#49278: 28.0.50; Lisp Mode is for Common Lisp João Távora
2021-06-29 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-29 18:25   ` João Távora
2021-06-30 12:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-30 12:45       ` João Távora
2021-06-29 20:46   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-29 20:55     ` João Távora
2021-06-29 22:59       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-30 12:47         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-30 12:37     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-06-30 13:03       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-30 13:21         ` João Távora
2021-06-30 13:29         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-30 13:32           ` João Távora
2021-06-30 13:51             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-30 14:32               ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-30 14:50                 ` João Távora
2021-06-30 15:54                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-30 16:02                     ` João Távora
2021-06-30 15:52                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-30 16:37                   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-30 16:47                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-30 16:50                       ` João Távora
2021-06-30 16:55                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-30 16:58                           ` João Távora
2021-06-30 14:54               ` João Távora
2021-06-30 15:55                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-30 15:58                   ` João Távora
2021-06-30 16:49                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-30  3:50 ` Phil Hagelberg
2021-06-30  9:44   ` João Távora
2021-09-24 23:01 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-24 23:23   ` João Távora
2021-09-25  0:22     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25  1:26       ` bug#49278: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-25  1:35       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-25  6:42       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-25  1:13     ` bug#49278: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-25  9:02       ` João Távora
2021-09-25 16:03         ` Drew Adams
2021-09-25 16:43           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-25 17:24             ` Drew Adams
2021-09-27 20:10           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-27 22:05             ` Drew Adams
2021-09-27 22:25               ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-27 23:24                 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-27 23:36                   ` João Távora
2021-09-28  2:17                     ` Drew Adams
2021-09-28  2:06                   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-28  2:31                     ` Drew Adams
2021-09-28  2:52                       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-27 14:48         ` Jean Louis

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