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: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:52:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1284118567.2190.29.camel@hamlet.localdomain> <1284197299.2190.95.camel@hamlet.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284202353 14560 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2010 10:52:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:52:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Simon South Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 11 12:52:31 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuNh5-00088C-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:52:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OuNh4-0006L7-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49120 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OuNgv-0006KA-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuNgt-00084e-Hm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:52:17 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm3.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.3]:30275) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OuNgt-00084T-4Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost4.adm.correo ([10.20.102.125]) by IMPaqm3.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 5LZA1f00s2iL0W23PNsCYU; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:52:12 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.61.39.212]) by IMPmailhost4.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 5Ns91f0024aeRwb1kNsAVX; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:52:12 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 10EF7660D2; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:52:09 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1284197299.2190.95.camel@hamlet.localdomain> (Simon South's message of "Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:28:19 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:129966 Archived-At: >> Would it be easy to modify one of these modes to handle all the Pascal >> dialects we want to handle? > This should be possible with delphi-mode if we limit ourselves to > ISO-standard and Object Pascal, which I'm learning are the only two > dialects still commonly used anyway. That would cover source code for > GNU Pascal and Free Pascal, the two major free implementations, and > Delphi as well. > In fact this is probably already true to a large extent and it would > mostly be a matter of testing and rounding out delphi-mode's > functionality. One thing I'd like to see with delphi.el (other than renaming it) is to use "standard" facilities like the syntax-table, rather than do all the parsing by hand. Do you have any idea what that would take? Stefan