From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dns-mode.el vs. zone-mode.el
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:03:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irl17mv6.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k65hdbdc.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> (Romain Francoise's message of "Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:15:11 +0200")
Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:
> Emacs 22 has a new package called dns-mode.el which does pretty much the
> same thing as an older package called zone-mode.el, the latter being
> part of Emacs since (at least) Emacs 20.
>
> They are so simple that we probably don't need two packages for this.
>
> Comparing the two yields the following observations:
> - dns-mode's code to update serials is more advanced and probably more
> robust;
> - dns-mode's font-locking is much better;
> - zone-mode updates serials automatically upon saving, via
> `write-file-functions';
> - dns-mode has a menu (but it has only one item so far);
> - dns-mode associates itself with .soa files in `auto-mode-alist'.
>
> So I'm proposing to merge the two by dropping zone-mode.el, making
> zone-mode an alias for dns-mode, and making dns-mode update serials
> automatically upon saving (so as not to confuse users of zone-mode).
>
> What do people think?
Sounds good to me. (Actually, I was not aware of zone-mode.el when I
wrote dns-mode.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-09 18:15 dns-mode.el vs. zone-mode.el Romain Francoise
2006-08-09 19:03 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2006-08-09 22:22 ` Bill Wohler
2006-08-10 20:19 ` Romain Francoise
2006-08-10 21:06 ` Edward O'Connor
2006-08-11 6:12 ` Romain Francoise
2006-08-11 17:55 ` Bill Wohler
2006-08-12 12:16 ` Romain Francoise
2006-08-12 17:14 ` Bill Wohler
2006-08-12 17:17 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-10 1:14 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-10 20:15 ` Romain Francoise
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