From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
arnold@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, zwang@post.cis.smu.edu,
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Subject: Re: new awk-mode
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 20:12:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205080012.g480CLW08634@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: buoadrcy9cu.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp
> > I'm confused. Is that the version that is intended to be cc-awk.el
> > (i.e. part of CC-mode) that someone was working on ?
>
> No. As far as I can see, it's the same as the `old' awk-mode, except
> with lots of menus added.
>
> Most of the menu entries seem to actually be `documentation,' where each
> menu entry label contains a short summary of a function or variable's
> usage, and selecting it inserts the summary as a sort of `template'.
I hope it uses `define-skeleton' to define those templates.
> I'm not entirely sure if the menus are the best place for all this info,
> but it might be handy (I'm forever browsing the manual whenever I write
> an awk program).
>
> There are other small changes too, but they _seem_ to actually be
> reversions, possibly because he based his code on an older copy of
> awk-mode.el than is in CVS (it's hard to tell because he sent the whole
> file instead of a patch).
Then he should probably get in touch with Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
so they can work together (Alan has been working on integrating awk-mode
into CC-mode to get an awk-specific indentation algorithm rather than
use the c-mode indentation which is all too often wrong).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-08 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-04 15:02 new awk-mode Richard Stallman
2002-05-05 23:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-07 2:34 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-07 20:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-08 0:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-05-08 2:47 ` SMU mails
2002-05-07 4:59 ` Richard Stallman
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