From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Omar Polo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: a mode for algol 68 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:16:21 +0100 Message-ID: <3R4QN2M2RR03N.2G0ADM6I6F823@venera> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40509"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mblaze/1.2 To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 29 13:26:13 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r8Jdt-000AMz-Io for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:26:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r8Jcn-0007yu-Dz; Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:25:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r8JUX-00072t-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:16:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.omarpolo.com ([144.91.116.244]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r8JUU-0006zr-A3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:16:32 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=omarpolo.com; s=20200327; t=1701260182; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc; bh=NUOZKbMpIHbQGFBjZifJXi4Cz8YM7uas+gfR5wMaO3k=; b=Sy5jPpxv2J/MorPUELyaPDCZj3FtsrR5PzvPrO1K2VpNdrpf/hNpOFpZfAqIpkNnhwsbz2 t5GTs7WchQN3LOUqKeMDPUs1Y3Mne9jdrGsMT45iwT8aJwmESnVVNZskFJhboLpY8DXHsc CpAw3ugmlLZq/D0YiKSnC1VHs55gx3w= Original-Received: from localhost (host-79-21-33-194.retail.telecomitalia.it [79.21.33.194]) by mail.omarpolo.com (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id c690ca44 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:16:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [local]) by localhost (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 3ee1e2a8 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:16:21 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=144.91.116.244; envelope-from=op@omarpolo.com; helo=mail.omarpolo.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:25:03 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:313355 Archived-At: (please Cc: me since I'm not subscribed to this list) Two years ago I started hacking on Jose E. Marchesi' algol-mode (that I've renamed a68-mode) while I was playing with the algol68g compiler. Truth to be told, I think I've spent more time hacking on the emacs mode that with the language itself, but anyway... I haven't touched the mode any more for the last two years, and I doubt I'll hack again on it in the future. Although it's almost finished, there remains issues with the indentation and font-locking in some cases. My hope would be that some friendly hacker would take interest in maintaining it and maybe even distribute it in ELPA / NonGNU Elpa. On the copyright side, I don't know Jose E. Marchesi and I copied initial the code from some random github repository. Not great, I know, but it was the only major mode for algol68. However, I *do* have an FSF copyright assignment and I ended up rewriting almost all of the code in the end. I paied attention to do the 'initial import' with the original code as-is and do my changes on top. It's 53 commits in total. The code is available here for browsing here: and can be cloned with git via anonymous SSH via or with HTTPS via . Thanks, Omar Polo