From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [OT] Netiquette Date: 14 Jun 2006 14:09:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2E2BAEFF-FEAD-4616-87CD-3B77D2734256@alastairs-place.net> <19321565-3F93-4299-996F-8A2081C462AF@alastairs-place.net> <85bqsyfrhb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853beaf0c4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <6C1D0482-9501-47E5-A79E-C40EF7B349A8@alastairs-place.net> <7BBA4171-6111-42FF-9293-0EF2D8E2E436@alastairs-place.net> <39FA2311-142B-41C9-BCC3-AF09D6B819FC@alastairs-place.net> <85wtbkc5ac.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <9F63F016-EB0C-4BD8-B359-D3E646800AF1@alastairs-place.net> <5B0419EA-6296-43A5-92E8-2C98243780B0@alastairs-place.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150308636 27739 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2006 18:10:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:10:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 14 20:10:25 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 1FqZoh-0001WT-Ev for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:10:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqZog-0003En-V4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqZoW-0003Ef-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:10:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqZoT-0003EQ-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:09:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqZoT-0003EN-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [67.59.132.6] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FqZxh-0001sb-Gf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1FqZoS-0003Hp-Cj; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:09:56 -0400 Original-To: Alastair Houghton In-Reply-To: <5B0419EA-6296-43A5-92E8-2C98243780B0@alastairs-place.net> Original-Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 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:55902 Archived-At: Alastair Houghton writes: > Maybe you thought I was bluffing, but I'm afraid I'm not, > so---thanks to you---I'm withdrawing my patch and I won't > be signing any copyright forms sent by the FSF. the choice is yours. thanks for posting the patch, anyway. perhaps someone will get ideas from reading it and make useful changes to asm-mode.el in the future. some observations for the next patch, should you have a change of heart: - the function asm-set-comment-char allows for very dynamic comment char. i wonder how useful that would be in practice -- do assembler language files often contain different regions w/ varying comment chars? (i.e., can we get same results w/ asm-mode-hook?) - docstrings conventionally have the grammar style: "Return foo..." instead of "Returns foo...". also, they should mention the function's arguments. - error messages conventionally begin w/ a capital letter. - the need to refontify strikes me as unclean. perhaps this is related to the first point above. see info nodes `(elisp) Tips' and `(elisp) Major Mode' for more information. if you have difficulty w/ that documentation, please start another thread. (i will bow out of this thread now.) thi