From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch for sql.el Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 17:59:54 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040507152703.46444.qmail@web60306.mail.yahoo.com> <409BBDD3.40803@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084053904 6302 80.91.224.253 (8 May 2004 22:05:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 22:05:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 09 00:04:59 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BMZwJ-0004tE-00 for ; Sun, 09 May 2004 00:04:59 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BMZwJ-0006Af-00 for ; Sun, 09 May 2004 00:04:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMZup-0003Yl-GT for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 18:03:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMZt0-0002xD-Rr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 18:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMZrf-00013K-Ei for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 18:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMZrV-0000lX-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2004 18:00:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.33) id 1BMZrO-00015j-Un; Sat, 08 May 2004 17:59:55 -0400 Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-reply-to: <409BBDD3.40803@yahoo.com> (message from Kevin Rodgers on Fri, 07 May 2004 10:48:19 -0600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22943 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22943 Why not define the vendor-specific modes as derived modes? Would that simplify things? Making them derived modes might be a good idea, if we need to have them. Please let's not call them "vendor"-specific. The developers of Postgres are not a vendor, any more than we are a vendor.