From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: derived-mode should provide default abbrev-table
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:42:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsjqqge94.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E0D8168.80704@online.de> ("Andreas Röhler"'s message of "Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:12:24 +0200")
> `define-derived-mode' says:
> :abbrev-table TABLE
> Use TABLE instead of the default.
> A nil value means to simply use the same abbrev-table as the parent.
> Two issues:
> - If the slot isn't served, no abbrev-table exists AFAIS.
As the doc says, it just uses the same as the parent (if the parent
doesn't use any, then the child won't use any either).
> A bug IMHO: Specification should be required only for non-defaults. Ie
> ":abbrev-table nil" should be the default.
I agree. And yes, I'm guilty of making this design choice back then.
It was an unfortunate decision but I'm not sure it's worth changing now.
> - 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.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-01 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-01 8:12 derived-mode should provide default abbrev-table Andreas Röhler
2011-07-01 16:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-07-01 17:48 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-04 15:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-02 7:59 ` Andreas Röhler
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