From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.user Subject: Re: cmake emacs mode Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:01:45 +0900 Message-ID: <87u08ggifa.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <6.2.0.14.2.20060425222650.08bc97d0@pop.biz.rr.com> <56450.128.165.123.132.1146064659.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146085333 7283 80.91.229.2 (26 Apr 2006 21:02:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:02:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cmake@cmake.org, "William A. Hoffman" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 26 23:02:07 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYr9B-0002xm-TZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:02:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYr9B-0004Ih-Ee for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FYr8z-0004Gl-9l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:01:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FYr8x-0004FV-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:01:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYr8x-0004FS-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.216.5.72] (helo=smtp02.dentaku.gol.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FYrBh-0003KN-Ng; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:04:42 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-96-138.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.96.138] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1FYr8s-0003fe-LS; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:01:46 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E47622F49; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:01:45 +0900 (JST) Original-To: herring@lanl.gov System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <56450.128.165.123.132.1146064659.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Stuart D. Herring's message of "Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:17:39 -0700 (PDT)") Original-Lines: 21 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com 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:53491 gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.user:1141 Archived-At: "Stuart D. Herring" writes: > Moreover, this mode (aside from the indenting) looks to be extremely > simple; you might be able to get away with making it a derived major mode > (from Fundamental mode, probably; see `define-derived-mode') or even a > generic mode (see `define-generic-mode'). Might make it less trouble to > keep up with. Yeah, I've found `define-generic-mode' to be very helpful for my own language modes: it makes font-locking and basic mode definition details almost trivial, and usually doesn't get in the way of adding additional functionality. I think it really deserves more attention than it seems to get (is d-g-m more or less compatible between Emacs 21 and 22?). [Now if only there was a similarly easy way to define an indentation engine... :-] -Miles -- Saa, shall we dance? (from a dance-class advertisement)