From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:45:00 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87aa7ogfo3.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87ipmcgjot.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83lir89gne.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321987523 28328 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2011 18:45:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:45:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 22 19:45:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSvLJ-0002Df-M0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:45:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37674 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSvLI-0004uR-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:45:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSvLH-0004uL-0v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:45:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSvLF-0000FS-Md for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:45:14 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47055) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSvLF-0000FH-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:45:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSvLE-0002BB-Ah for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:45:12 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:45:12 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:45:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:B3scdoIlnwk0iXzO49CtTijZFzU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146159 Archived-At: On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:05:41 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Ted Zlatanov >> 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