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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org, Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org>
Cc: me@wilfred.me.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is .ml associated with lisp-mode in auto-mode-alist?
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:55:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <daef39c9-3db1-43fc-5271-d374e6645cf1@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1fXBMp-0000UY-GF@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard Stallman wrote:

> GNU Emacs did support Mocklisp (by translation and emulation) for a
> few years in the 1980s.  I hope and expect nobody uses it any more.

Yes, it would be helpful if .ml were to default to a mode useful for editing ML 
code. I think the most commonly-used Elisp code for that is Tuareg Mode, which 
is GPL'ed; how about if we default to that? See:

https://github.com/ocaml/tuareg



  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-24 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-24 11:28 Why is .ml associated with lisp-mode in auto-mode-alist? Wilfred Hughes
2018-06-24 11:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-06-24 12:05 ` Alexis
2018-06-24 12:23 ` Adam Sampson
2018-06-24 20:12   ` Richard Stallman
2018-06-24 20:55     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-06-25 10:00       ` Andreas Röhler
2018-06-25 10:25         ` Andreas Röhler
2018-07-05 16:08       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-24 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii

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