Re: a mode for algol 68

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> writes:

> (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.

I think it would be very nice to have this added to GNU ELPA.  If the
code works (and I see it isn't too much), it shouldn't be too much of a
maintenance burden, so I'd be fine with helping out.

> 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.

I cannot evaluate this myself, do you a link to the original GitHub
repository?

> The code is available here for browsing here:
> <https://git.omarpolo.com/?action=summary&path=a68-mode.git>
> and can be cloned with git via anonymous SSH via
> <ssh://anon@omarpolo.com/a68-mode.git> or with HTTPS via
> <https://git.omarpolo.com/a68-mode.git>.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Omar Polo