From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 50674@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50674: Major mode for etc/AUTHORS with basic font-locking
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:38:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkpY+YDNrc6ypKwVjx7JjQjVnQxrjvo+dr0R9=ZE_sn_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o88oikye.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>> +;;;###autoload
>> +(define-derived-mode etc-authors-mode special-mode "Authors View"
>> + "Major mode for viewing \"etc/AUTHORS\" from the Emacs distribution.
>> +Provides some basic font locking and not much else."
>> + (setq-local font-lock-defaults
>> + '(etc-authors-mode-font-lock-keywords nil nil ((?_ . "w"))))
>> + (setq font-lock-multiline nil)
>> + (etc-authors-mode--hide-local-variables))
>
> 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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-19 17:38 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 [this message]
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
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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