From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: skeleton.el _ versus @, a new patch Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:51:36 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200304282151.h3SLpal0002635@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200303242005.h2OK57gr013285@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1048554010.20622.66.camel@zircon> <200303311740.h2VHeZNG017518@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1049242082.66437.15.camel@zircon> <200304020020.h320K4de023432@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1049245381.66437.33.camel@zircon> <20030403084549.2a5aca76.occitan@esperanto.org> <200304091626.h39GQlwc000430@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1050020736.419.11.camel@zircon> <200304112359.h3BNxpw5012335@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1050879051.74664.17.camel@zircon><1050975058.74664.30.camel@zircon> <1051199987.572.9.camel@zircon> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051566855 25520 80.91.224.249 (28 Apr 2003 21:54:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 23:54:13 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19AGZV-0006cM-00 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:54:01 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19AGhr-0000df-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:02:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AGZy-0005WK-05 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AGZa-0005P0-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AGZY-0005Mm-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AGXB-0004h4-00; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:51:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3SLpbx6002638; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:51:37 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h3SLpal0002635; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:51:36 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Richard Stallman Original-cc: Joe Kelsey Original-cc: dapfy@t-online.de X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13520 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13520 > A skeleton is basically a list. Each element of the list is either a > string, a piece of lisp code, a sub-skeleton list or something to be > reinterpreted by skeleton-internal-1, basically anything that lisp > allows as a list member. The only reason a bare - would occur in an > existing skeleton is if someone was using it as a variable name for some > obscure purpoose. It is quite unlikely that any existing skeleton has > any bare -'s, the only use would be as parts of strings or character > constants using the usual lisp syntax for such. > > In that case I see no harm in this change. Stephan, would you like > to install it? I'm kind of away right now, so if someone else can do it, that would be best. Stefan