From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.cc-mode.general Subject: Re: Reify the cc-mode-common into an actual parent mode Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 13:37:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20160528113003.GA2950@acm.fritz.box> <20160529100020.GB3367@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464630220 343 80.91.229.3 (30 May 2016 17:43:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 17:43:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cc-mode-help@lists.sourceforge.net To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 30 19:43:32 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b7RDv-00059g-12 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 19:43:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7RDu-0003RU-5L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 13:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7R73-0006L4-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 13:36:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7R6z-0005DL-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 13:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7R6z-0005CK-F4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 13:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b7R6v-0002OJ-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 19:36:17 +0200 Original-Received: from modemcable043.43-19-135.mc.videotron.ca ([135.19.43.43]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 May 2016 19:36:17 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by modemcable043.43-19-135.mc.videotron.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 May 2016 19:36:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: modemcable043.43-19-135.mc.videotron.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rRNUsMQ0SHOk/klF4uvtsxXwMhk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204148 gmane.emacs.cc-mode.general:6868 Archived-At: > I think it is. Although it is certainly open to a mode hacker to go > through cc-langs.el adding in values for every language variable for her > new mode, it is far less troublesome to use `c-add-language', which uses > an existing mode (not necessarily one of the seven "blessed" modes) as a > basis. Using c-add-language is orthogonal to whether or not the new mode derives (in the define-derived-mode) from another. I don't think it would be correct for csharp-mode to derive from c-mode, since the user may place settings specific to C (and inapplicable or not desired for C#) in its c-mode-hook. Stefan