From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Spenser Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Request: add cl-font-lock to Emacs or Elpa Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:32:03 -0700 Message-ID: <56660D97-604F-4C15-8961-D35F07E6F29B@spensertruex.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="51770"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Spenser Truex , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 18:48:21 2020 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 1jEGKC-000DKh-Qe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:48:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37848 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jEGKB-0007Ka-TB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41089) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jEG4b-0005k0-9q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:32:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEG4Z-0001hp-BY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:32:13 -0400 Original-Received: from spensertruex.com ([66.70.189.182]:50144) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEG4Z-0001O1-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:32:11 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=spensertruex.com; s=myselector; t=1584466141; bh=zODovHGFQOaJ59tq+AQw25xsnzpHbLonYokqaXsJqkU=; h=Subject:From:In-Reply-To:Cc:Date:References:To; b=QYYT1I739y0Gx1ZVMzectnFYlZ+X4nUg/BTnzXynbpoqvAkHLA8brm0pltsJ7VEuS upK4NBzMHl6j1OWtqog2ZGLzg3BEl5CkiIMGP6yyTAu4o0tVqQ0F7/4wdSiIhsdpMQ /vJ5GFkRk/F3wwI4fpq1YBT4XS9YM4QIJNh/3z61s3E7UgpPqxUkclvD6Km0NhnH5D aj25jcA8wpTuf4QvgnX+wSWb6kN5MPdRV4+nf4271WvGansz0iAoIudcFHNzJR27/h 00mySeZMgWsyN/jR99avZxXW8WRuINOZfOBtWFa7lB8ZzUK/1ehLj43648IvdoJfkS 3Hd8gErI+wBFQ== In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (17D50) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 66.70.189.182 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:46:30 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:245562 Archived-At: I=E2=80=99m glad to see no philosophical complaints about this package being= added. I will do my best to send updates on development, and I want to make= it as elpa-friendly as possible. > Em 15 de mar de 2020, =C3=A0(s) 14:01, Drew Adams e= screveu: > =EF=BB=BF >>=20 >> I think it should be an opt-in feature, not a replacement for the >> current syntax highlighting in lisp-mode because many users prefer the >> old syntax highlighting. Also, it is not very sophisticated (it is just >> regular expressions) and sometimes doesn't highlight right based on the >> context. >=20 > Even without looking at the proposed feature/change, > those statements sound right, to me. >=20 >> The other issue with it is that it can't really be unloaded. >>=20 >> So if these issues are too great for it to be added then we will have to >> fix them first. >=20 > I'd also suggest changing the file name from > `cl-font-lock.el' to `font-lock-cl.el'. This > isn't really part of Common Lisp or its > emulation, and if we get other such code for > other languages then that would naturally use > the same convention: `font-lock-.el'. We were also asked by Melpa to name change. We are currently doing this. Cur= rently the Github organization and the package have been renamed. Thanks! >=20 > (No, I don't feel strongly about this. It's > just something that occurred to me. Perhaps > there are good counter-arguments.)