From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:45:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa7ogfo3.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83lir89gne.fsf@gnu.org
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:05:41 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
>> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:18:10 -0500
>>
>> I'd like, instead of saying
>>
>> (define-derived-mode cfengine3-mode prog-mode "CFEngine3" ...
>>
>> to say something like:
>>
>> (define-derived-mode cfengine3-mode (if (fboundp 'prog-mode) prog-mode fundamental-mode) "CFEngine3" ...
>>
>> or something like it, which will keep the compiler happy and will work
>> in older Emacsen. I'd rather not maintain two versions of cfengine.el.
>> I don't use any prog-mode features in cfengine.el.
EZ> Why can't you define a fake prog-mode in cfengine.el, if prog-mode is
EZ> not already fboundp?
That's a good way, but I don't know if the maintainers would mind, and
if it would cause autoload/compilation issues. Do I have to wrap it all
in `eval-when-compile'?
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-22 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 17:18 prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-22 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-22 18:45 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-11-22 22:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-23 2:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-23 6:03 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-23 13:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-24 6:03 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-25 13:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-26 10:57 ` Reiner Steib
2011-11-27 2:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-01 15:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-02 16:12 ` changes to cfengine-mode (was: prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el) Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-02 20:32 ` changes to cfengine-mode Stefan Monnier
2011-12-07 11:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-07 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-08 9:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-12-13 17:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-13 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-13 21:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-17 0:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-21 11:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-13 17:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-07 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-13 15:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
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