From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: derived-mode should provide default abbrev-table Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:23:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E0D8168.80704@online.de> <4E0E085D.8070007@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309794055 7174 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2011 15:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 15:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 04 17:40:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdlGU-0007JW-Vo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:40:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33063 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdlGT-0006vt-DN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:40:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55594) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdkzN-0002Ji-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:23:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdkzL-0008Dm-Bn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:23:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:62378 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdkzL-0008Dc-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:23:07 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAEjaEU5FxIxr/2dsb2JhbABTp3x4iHrBD4Y2BJ5chCw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,472,1304308800"; d="scan'208";a="120373020" Original-Received: from 69-196-140-107.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.140.107]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 04 Jul 2011 11:23:04 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7E23559173; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 11:23:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4E0E085D.8070007@online.de> ("Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hle?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?r=22's?= message of "Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:48:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141532 Archived-At: >>> - If a name is given which doesn't represent a valid table, the mode hook >>> should make an empty one from it silently. >> No, that's not how it works: we do not want to encourage the use of >> non-standard abbrev-table names. > Hm, that's not plausible for me. Could you tell the reason? Because it would be non-standard and that having standard names makes it easier to find things? > What kind of standard you see in danger here which respect to mode-name? I said "abbrev-table names", not "mode name". Stefan