From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon South Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:28:19 -0400 Message-ID: <1284197299.2190.95.camel@hamlet.localdomain> References: <1284118567.2190.29.camel@hamlet.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284197336 29765 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2010 09:28:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 11 11:28:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuMO7-0000Nf-AO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:28:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40110 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OuMNw-0002Nf-0d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54496 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OuMNl-0002Na-GH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:28:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuMNk-0003nm-8F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:28:25 -0400 Original-Received: from caiajhbdcaib.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.81]:45537 helo=postalmail-a5.g.dreamhost.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuMNk-0003ni-2C; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.106] (CPE0019b90fad23-CM00407b87aa6e.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.238.107.135]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by postalmail-a5.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E81BE95B; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:28:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 (2.30.3-1.fc13) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129959 Archived-At: On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 01:30 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > Would it be easy to modify one of these modes to handle all the Pascal > dialects we want to handle? This should be possible with delphi-mode if we limit ourselves to ISO-standard and Object Pascal, which I'm learning are the only two dialects still commonly used anyway. That would cover source code for GNU Pascal and Free Pascal, the two major free implementations, and Delphi as well. In fact this is probably already true to a large extent and it would mostly be a matter of testing and rounding out delphi-mode's functionality. -- Simon South ssouth@simonsouth.ca