From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] support a few of the new features of C++11 in syntax highlighting Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 09:03:22 +0000 Message-ID: <20140517090321.GC3398@acm.acm> References: <87ppjks3th.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhu8rrtm.fsf@wanadoo.es> <20140511220947.GD2759@acm.acm> <87ha4wrle6.fsf@wanadoo.es> <20140514201353.GA4125@acm.acm> <20140516160743.GA3267@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400317678 32065 80.91.229.3 (17 May 2014 09:07:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 09:07:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 17 11:07:52 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wlaaq-0001lD-TA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 11:07:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39282 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wlaaq-0004Zk-DD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 05:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57533) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wlaai-0004Ya-Ht for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 05:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wlaac-00018A-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 05:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:38524 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wlaac-000183-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 05:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 84687 invoked by uid 3782); 17 May 2014 09:07:33 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951B643.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.182.67]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 17 May 2014 11:07:32 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3559 invoked by uid 1000); 17 May 2014 09:03:22 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171906 Archived-At: Hi, Richard. On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:17:57AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > We've never been anywhere else. CC Mode developement has always taken > > place mainly in its own project at SourceForge. > Right, this is not the part that bothers me. > The developer of CC Mode insisted on doing this even though > I told him it was likely to cause trouble. Presumably Barry Warsaw. At the time (1992), I'm pretty sure he was an XEmacs user, so would naturally want to support that platform too. > I hope that the person doing this C++ work will adapt it to fit into > the code in the Emacs release. Otherwise it won't reach most Emacs > users, and we will need to find someone to redo the work. This is precisely his aim. The amount of adaptation needed is minimal. Standalone CC Mode runs without modification on Emacs. > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation > 51 Franklin St > Boston MA 02110 > USA > www.fsf.org www.gnu.org > Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. > Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).