From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2? Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:24:38 +0900 Message-ID: References: <7b501d5c0908091634ndfba631vd9db6502db301097@mail.gmail.com> <5683A82C-C186-45EB-9290-76F87859E353@merrillpress.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249874708 19298 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2009 03:25:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:25:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Deniz Dogan , Daniel Colascione , Leo , Emacs-Devel devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 10 05:25:00 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MaLVK-0003Mo-TL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:24:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35324 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MaLVK-0002Vm-51 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:24:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaLVE-0002UU-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaLV8-0002UI-Kb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43726 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MaLV8-0002UF-I8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:24:46 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]:40517) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MaLV5-0006Zh-Pu; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:24:44 -0400 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.50]) by tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n7A3OaCv016590; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:24:39 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:24:39 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.114.224] [10.114.114.224]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:24:39 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id E202A52E23E; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:24:38 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:55:33 -0400") Original-Lines: 13 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:113933 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > So I do believe js2-mode is maintained. Also, while it it unusual, > I think it's a very interesting experiment in how Emacs could evolve > (similarly to CEDET). "Evolve"? Is js2-mode's roll-everything-from-scratch code better than the existing infrastructure that it ignores (e.g. font-lock)? -Miles -- The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. [Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964]