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: Re: improving network utility calls in lisp/net/net-utils.el Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:34:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <200904101934.n3AJYd9T026109@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> References: <87ljq8lk9u.fsf@rabkins.net> <87y6u8k3bo.fsf@rabkins.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239392210 32564 80.91.229.12 (10 Apr 2009 19:36:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:36:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yoni Rabkin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 10 21:38:08 2009 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 1LsMY3-0008DC-Pb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:38:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LsMWf-0007WG-7m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LsMWY-0007Tw-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LsMWT-0007Q2-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52541 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LsMWS-0007Pk-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv2.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.120]:42827) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LsMWS-0006l4-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from godzilla.ics.uci.edu (godzilla.ics.uci.edu [128.195.10.101]) by sallyv2.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3AJYfxT013013; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:34:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by godzilla.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id n3AJYd9T026109; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:34:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87y6u8k3bo.fsf@rabkins.net> (Yoni Rabkin's message of "Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:09:47 +0300") Original-Lines: 12 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: n3AJYfxT013013 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@godzilla.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:110190 Archived-At: Yoni Rabkin writes: > +(define-derived-mode net-utils-mode text-mode "NetworkUtil" > + "Major mode for interacting with an external network utility." > + (set > + (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults) > + '((net-utils-font-lock-keywords))) > + (use-local-map net-utils-mode-map) > + (setq buffer-read-only t)) You can derive from `special-mode' here (or just use it), it sets buffer-read-only, and it has the binding for "q".