From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 50674@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50674: Major mode for etc/AUTHORS with basic font-locking
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 01:28:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=83qAOEz7HFAQxJU5KcDiUbsragrHYd_KQ-=2z28Jg0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuiecv9n.fsf@gnus.org>
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>
>>> If the worry is that it will clutter
>>> lisp/textmodes, perhaps we could add a new directory where such
>>> "small" modes could go.
>>
>> It really will clutter lisp/textmodes.
>
> I'd prefer to have it as a separate file.
Same.
> However, it is a really, really specialised mode -- for one single
> Emacs file -- so perhaps it would make sense to create a specific
> sub-directory for it (and similar things that are kinda meta-Emacsey).
Yes, we could add a new directory.
It seems to me that very few things would be in a directory for
meta-Emacsey things. The only other file I could think to add
font-locking for is COPYING and perhaps DISTRIB (as those are reachable
from the splash-screen). Maybe the tutorial could use some font-locking
as well, but we could put that in tutorial.el.
Another idea is to add, on the same level as progmodes and textmodes, a
new directory "display-modes", in which we would put modes that are not
really meant for editing. I can see several modes that would in
principle fit in such a directory: help-mode, tabulated-list-mode,
world-clock, etc. (There would be no immediate need to move anything,
however.)
Or, you know, we just live with having it in textmodes. I don't think
it's too bad, all things considered. We are talking of a very small
number of files here, and it's not like we add new textmodes every week.
Worst case, we move it later; it's small enough that convenient access
to its git history is probably not even a concern.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-21 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-19 14:12 bug#50674: Major mode for etc/AUTHORS with basic font-locking Stefan Kangas
2021-09-19 15:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-19 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-19 21:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-21 19:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-19 16:33 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-19 17:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-20 6:41 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-20 7:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-20 9:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-20 15:24 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-21 6:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-21 6:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 7:57 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-21 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-21 8:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-21 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-21 11:18 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-21 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-21 8:28 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-09-21 16:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 17:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 18:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-21 18:41 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-21 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-21 19:22 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-21 17:28 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-21 18:33 ` Stefan Kangas
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