From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
cpitclaudel@gmail.com, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Add a separate mode for .dir-locals.el
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:38:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191017193832.GB8064@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jjbv9snqlok.fsf@gmail.com>
Hello, João.
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 19:19:39 +0100, João Távora wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
[ .... ]
> > And making a common ancestor for this new mode and emacs-lisp-mode
> > would be a Bad Thing. It would fragment e-l-m for no particular
> > gain.
> What exactly do you mean by "fragmentation"?
Something which is a coherent whole and is currently in one place will
be split amongst two, or several, places, leaving it less coherent.
> What is the thing that you can do now that you believe you will not be
> able to do later?
Nothing, of course. But it will be more difficult, less pleasant, more
frustrating and more error-prone. Maybe not by a lot, but noticeably
so.
There were several bugs several years ago caused by the introduction of
prog-mode. And there are now features in major modes where it's not
obvious whether they're implemented in prog-mode or the major mode
itself. Finding that out is extra work. That's fragmentation.
> João
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-17 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-17 2:07 Add a separate mode for .dir-locals.el Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-17 2:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-17 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-17 11:51 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-17 12:21 ` João Távora
2019-10-17 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-17 13:51 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-17 15:45 ` Yuri Khan
2019-10-17 15:47 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-17 16:55 ` Amin Bandali
2019-10-17 14:00 ` João Távora
2019-10-17 15:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-10-17 15:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-17 15:41 ` João Távora
2019-10-17 15:47 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-17 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-17 17:04 ` João Távora
2019-10-17 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-17 17:42 ` João Távora
2019-10-17 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-17 18:09 ` João Távora
2019-10-17 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-17 19:00 ` João Távora
2019-10-17 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-17 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-18 7:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-18 12:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-17 21:35 ` João Távora
2019-10-18 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-18 8:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-10-18 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-18 10:25 ` João Távora
2019-10-18 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-18 13:43 ` João Távora
2019-10-18 14:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-10-19 9:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-19 11:00 ` João Távora
2019-10-19 11:08 ` João Távora
2019-10-19 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-19 12:55 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-19 13:36 ` João Távora
2019-10-19 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-19 16:13 ` João Távora
2019-10-19 12:53 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-19 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-19 16:51 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-19 20:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-10-19 21:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-10-19 22:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-10-20 5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-20 8:17 ` João Távora
2019-10-20 15:40 ` Juri Linkov
2019-10-20 19:29 ` João Távora
2019-10-21 12:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-10-21 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-21 13:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-10-21 13:41 ` João Távora
2019-10-21 13:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-19 20:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-10-20 5:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-20 20:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-10-21 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-21 7:05 ` João Távora
2019-10-21 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-21 8:25 ` João Távora
2019-10-21 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-21 10:28 ` João Távora
2019-10-21 10:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-21 11:22 ` João Távora
2019-10-21 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-21 11:39 ` João Távora
2019-10-21 12:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-10-17 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-17 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-17 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-18 7:34 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-18 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-18 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-19 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-19 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-17 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-17 17:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-10-17 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-17 19:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-10-17 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-17 18:19 ` João Távora
2019-10-17 19:38 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
[not found] ` <CALDnm50Q+QuhYRqZxV4-YzAAqhmU05+nOS3Oh1wvcJsYEX+sbg@mail.gmail.com>
2019-10-17 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-17 15:31 ` João Távora
2019-10-17 8:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-10-17 11:48 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-17 12:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-10-17 12:10 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-18 3:14 ` Richard Stallman
2019-10-17 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-19 12:28 ` Why we SHOULDN'T add " Alan Mackenzie
2019-10-19 12:59 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-10-19 22:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
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