From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why is .ml associated with lisp-mode in auto-mode-alist? Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 12:08:43 -0400 Message-ID: <20180705120843.448ba308@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530807145 1942 195.159.176.226 (5 Jul 2018 16:12:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 16:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 05 18:12:21 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fb6rj-0000MS-L2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 18:12:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53572 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fb6tq-0000mM-Oa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:14:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fb6oJ-0004Gp-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:08:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fb6oF-0002vb-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([166.84.7.14]:35448) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fb6oF-0002vM-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:08:43 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9194B248; Thu, 5 Jul 2018 12:08:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9D22DEE49; Thu, 5 Jul 2018 12:08:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 166.84.7.14 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226961 Archived-At: On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:55:10 -0700 Paul Eggert 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