From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Toon Claes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What improvements would be truly useful? Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 12:44:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> <03118DC0-39DA-4AB5-980E-A33809B9A5EE@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520509399 6967 195.159.176.226 (8 Mar 2018 11:43:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 11:43:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman , Alan Mackenzie , Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 08 12:43:14 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ettx4-0001fl-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 12:43:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38247 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ettz6-00064M-TA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 06:45:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ettyv-00061C-0v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 06:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ettyr-0006eR-UK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 06:45:09 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.soverin.net ([94.130.159.233]:39177 helo=g02sm01.soverin.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ettyr-0006dP-Jp; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 06:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from soverin.net by soverin.net DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=iotcl.com; s=default; t=1520509502; bh=94Q1683s7t8o6cID7GuZdK5ePOSbk3b3ni/6ztSAeaM=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=GVr4NgBeqdWh3lu8xfoJgQsfZqZqnv4d4Fs/rgvL8Ht7AEoi4oEgyFT0weQMR0nGl 1MqP+RRVzjlbUKsUa7jGQp1Kvo1d9W8iFiT3v3MJewsvIuDep12tzMz0ftBTxkNLT8 3Nw7Wh+KdDkqW7P3qtedkb81QanXKu3jc/4sBwck= In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:11:38 -0500") X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.2 at g02sm01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 94.130.159.233 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:223487 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable IMHO, one thing that I would find interesting is proper support for multiple major modes. I know there has been some talking about this in the past: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-04/msg00585.html But I'm not sure what the outcome was of that very long thread. I only know later on some improvements were made to have html, css, and js modes working together:=20 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-01/msg00775.html But still having great multiple major mode support--with islands having their own major and minor modes--would make Emacs a more modern editor. =2D- Toon --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEqpqkV/lEuXKD1KF3MRQ6gtMrOJcFAlqhIh0ACgkQMRQ6gtMr OJeVrw/+PDFap9UZS1F6t4Ng+K5egG7W1w9zmCabq38q3W4GgZP/kuQHv1dCzBbl FqTdst+hkZF1JfvlKIyWAcdjukz3jImB5nDnrF5fJjx2z7Nd8a0VSrlOY/qi4PHq WtpKlISUwO95EtbTPhswPPWshhQko/Jh5/X02bYAzCcucVhv3mWAqEuJUIdeQ1LT 1f/hxYzOR9qah3fHY9dZAMjp1uX3BtKZO0QGevoLAP3CfBqsR+GUZhr0cxEzC9KH KLO3u4SpW7ys9wga4nYl1HdBSXbOzmR0+9zdEChJ3TWSKGw3tmkJj68ZA1aXk2b4 QZkeny4oM0hM2i1JiktTp2cymoTKoRAwzCn8mCyzc7MO0UWhi9n3Fw03AHMPhWZC hDgftIUpfXUMidTvbiz0aJiv+9fKuR2EngOip1nNZRrDjoU6HtaV3oCZGmpJYO52 7+BQwIWrf6y819B2xqTGFt+/LprdTqE399/SVMvveCVUt7mSnUep3fuZd275qDQe BfBP5/JYR0X02wcgtuDQpNXYOtukD1f0rIZuj7qXELd8vTfn52rwHGgQklIMNhiV vW0LDsYxB2NR7wtUDzHwjixbAEZPllPIeJQjPUg8zNIbvixKY7eSmXcnpr2jcN7z bRKtAqeJqLn8VvAkJ6l5e5bYMshYk2GqpHmEdLajaWIOzU5s5Tk= =BVn0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--