From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is .ml associated with lisp-mode in auto-mode-alist?
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 12:08:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180705120843.448ba308@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <daef39c9-3db1-43fc-5271-d374e6645cf1@cs.ucla.edu>
On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:55:10 -0700 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
wrote:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> > GNU Emacs did support Mocklisp (by translation and emulation) for
> > a few years in the 1980s. I hope and expect nobody uses it any
> > more.
>
> Yes, it would be helpful if .ml were to default to a mode useful
> for editing ML code. I think the most commonly-used Elisp code for
> that is Tuareg Mode, which is GPL'ed; how about if we default to
> that? See:
>
> https://github.com/ocaml/tuareg
>
I believe that the bulk of people who edit files ending in .ml are
using Tuareg mode for it (that is to say, I believe that OCaml is
more popular than SML, and that Tuareg mode is the usually used mode
for that.)
--
Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-05 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-24 11:28 Why is .ml associated with lisp-mode in auto-mode-alist? Wilfred Hughes
2018-06-24 11:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-24 12:05 ` Alexis
2018-06-24 12:23 ` Adam Sampson
2018-06-24 20:12 ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-24 20:55 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-25 10:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-06-25 10:25 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-07-05 16:08 ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2018-06-24 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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