lua-mode

lua-mode

[Miles Bader]

Anyone know what happened to lua-mode?

Last I knew, one of the authors wanted to rewrite it (for code
cleanliness and ease of copyright assignment), but I haven't heard
anything for a long while.

I sent mail to him last January, but never got a reply.

Has anyone been in contact with him?

Thanks,

-Miles

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Re: lua-mode

[Jürgen Hötzel]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:11:19PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Anyone know what happened to lua-mode?

Sorry: the rewrite is still on my TODO-list! But i had no time
yet. Any contribution would be appreciated!

Jürgen

Re: lua-mode

[tomas]

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:51:00AM +0200, Jürgen Hötzel wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:11:19PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> > Anyone know what happened to lua-mode?
> 
> Sorry: the rewrite is still on my TODO-list! But i had no time
> yet. Any contribution would be appreciated!

Is there any publically accessible code to contribute to? I can't
make any promises at the moment, but I would be quite interested
to have a lua mode working.

Thanks
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ruby-mode

[Seiji Zenitani]

Hi,

I hear that the emacs trunk is now open to new features.  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?

Seiji Zenitani
zenitani@gmail.com

Re: ruby-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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.

I doubt it'll be included in Emacs-22.2 (I expect this release to be
bugfix-only), but maybe Emacs-22.3 will be open to a few minor feature
additions such as new packages.


        Stefan

adding new modes [was: Re: ruby-mode]

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 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

Re: adding new modes

[Miles Bader]

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
> 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.
...

I think it would be good if Emacs included "lua-mode.el":

   http://luaforge.net/projects/lua-mode/

Lua is a very nice scripting/embedded language[*].

Both mode and language are free software (lua-mode.el is GPLed, Lua
itself uses the MIT license).

-miles

[*] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_programming_language

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Re: adding new modes

[Richard Stallman]

    I think it would be good if Emacs included "lua-mode.el":

       http://luaforge.net/projects/lua-mode/

Have you checked that it is well written and fits into Emacs well
as a major mode?  That it doesn't do anything bizarre which major
modes should not do?

If so, could you ask the author(s) of lua-mode.el to contact me?


We could include a mode for Ruby on the same two conditions.


    Lua
    itself uses the MIT license).

MIT uses many licenses, so it is best to call this the X11 license.

Re: adding new modes

[Glenn Morris]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>     I think it would be good if Emacs included "lua-mode.el":
>
>        http://luaforge.net/projects/lua-mode/
>
> Have you checked that it is well written and fits into Emacs well
> as a major mode?  That it doesn't do anything bizarre which major
> modes should not do?
>
> If so, could you ask the author(s) of lua-mode.el to contact me?


Hi,

Did anything happen about this (installing lua-mode.el)?


I took a quick look at lua-mode.el. It has had quite a few authors
over the years, some just listed as "various", so getting assignments
might be difficult. Oddly, it describes itself as "Copyright FSF", yet
I cannot see any of the main authors in copyright.list...

lua-mode

[Richard Stallman]

Nothing has happened.  Would you like to contact the authors and see
if they wish to assign?

Re: lua-mode

[Glenn Morris]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> Nothing has happened.  Would you like to contact the authors and see
> if they wish to assign?

I sent the current maintainer a mail.

Re: lua-mode

[Juergen Hoetzel]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:56:20AM -0400, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
> 
> > Nothing has happened.  Would you like to contact the authors and see
> > if they wish to assign?
> 
> I sent the current maintainer a mail.
> 

I took maintainer-ship for Lua-mode in May 2006. I only wrote part of
the code.

There are some issues with the current codebase. The indention code is
quite a hack.

So i decided to not work on current codebase anymore. Instead I'm
doing a complete clean rewrite for GNU Emacs 22 at the moment. By the
way this will solve the copyright issue. I will keep you informed on
this list.

Jürgen

Re: lua-mode

[Richard Stallman]

    So i decided to not work on current codebase anymore. Instead I'm
    doing a complete clean rewrite for GNU Emacs 22 at the moment. By the
    way this will solve the copyright issue. I will keep you informed on
    this list.

Thank you.