From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lute Kamstra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Splitting and moving generic.el. Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:03:53 +0200 Message-ID: <878y45sdxi.fsf@xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112175360 25276 80.91.229.2 (30 Mar 2005 09:36:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 30 11:35:58 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGZbH-0001SP-PE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:35:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGZrj-0000DS-AN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 04:51:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGZT0-0003Bt-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 04:26:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGZSo-00039T-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 04:26:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGZSj-000315-54 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 04:26:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.109.24.30] (helo=smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DGZ7C-00051O-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 04:03:54 -0500 Original-Received: from pijl (a80-127-67-124.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.127.67.124]) by smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2U93sCt014227 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:03:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Lute.Kamstra@xs4all.nl) Original-Received: from lute by pijl with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DGZ7B-0001cW-00 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:03:53 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 15 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35351 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35351 generic.el currently contains two facilities: 1. Defining major modes by means of define-generic-mode. 2. The definition of default-generic-mode and some setup code to use it automatically for some files. I think 2. is a strange side-effect when you are using generic.el to do 1. So I propose to move 2. to generic-x.el, where it is more appropriate. And what about moving generic.el from lisp/ to lisp/emacs-lisp/? That seems the appropriate location. Lute.