From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: adding new modes [was: Re: ruby-mode] Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:49:42 -0700 Message-ID: <200705161649.l4GGngSD026759@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179334249 30898 80.91.229.12 (16 May 2007 16:50:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 16 18:50:45 2007 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 4.50) id 1HoMi4-00044o-W1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 18:50:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HoMq4-0007GZ-QH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:59:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HoMq1-0007GK-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:58:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HoMq0-0007G8-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:58:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HoMq0-0007G5-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:58:56 -0400 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HoMhz-0006bT-6W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4GGngSD026759; Wed, 16 May 2007 09:49:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon\, 14 May 2007 13\:16\:28 -0400") Original-Lines: 26 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9 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:71183 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > > I hear that the emacs trunk is now open to new features. > > Indeed. > > > I think it's time to include ruby-mode to the Emacs main distribution, > > considering the recent popularity of the ruby language. The ruby > > developers agreed with this idea when I asked them in 2005. > > > Are you OK to include ruby-mode for 22.2 or 23.0? How to start? > > It's up to Richardto decide, I guess, but I expect there'd be no problem > accepting ruby-mode on the trunk (which will turn into Emacs-23 at some > point in the future), as long as the legal paperwork is done. I.e. the main > author(s) need to transfer their copyright to the FSF and the people who > submitted non-trivial patches need to sign a copyright-disclaimer. What is the standard procedure for adding new modes to emacs (if there's any)? I would be nice to see at least add verilog-mode and vera-mode. There was talk at some point about adding php-mode. Also some more vc back-ends would be good: vc-hg, vc-git, and maybe vc-p4.el