From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50674: Major mode for etc/AUTHORS with basic font-locking Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:41:45 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87ee9jpxke.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87o88oikye.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39586"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: 50674@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 20 09:11:42 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mSDSm-000A6f-L1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:11:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59474 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSDSk-0007bU-8S for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 03:11:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSDSB-0007X6-J0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 03:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mSDSB-0004Su-BA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 03:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mSDSB-0002QX-6Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 03:11:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:11:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50674 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 50674-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B50674.16321218469256 (code B ref 50674); Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:11:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 50674) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Sep 2021 07:10:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40844 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mSDRt-0002PE-Oo for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 03:10:45 -0400 Original-Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.197]:42033) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mSDRo-0002Op-Nf for 50674@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 03:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 98AFB1C0011; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:10:32 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:38:32 -0700") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:214834 Archived-At: >> Isn't generic-x.el a more suitable place for such small modes? > > The problem I see is that this does not use `define-generic-mode', > unlike the other modes in there, and also I'm not sure it makes sense to > drop autoloaded functions in there. AFAIU, that file and its modes is > supposed to be optional (not that I agree that they should be). I really see no difference from etc-authors-mode and e.g. etc-fstab-generic-mode defined in generic-x.el by define-generic-mode. And still it can be autoloaded like c++-mode-syntax-table used to be autoloaded.