* M O O N that spells moon
@ 2021-03-21 2:18 Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-03-21 9:09 ` tomas
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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor @ 2021-03-21 2:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I do `lua-mode', then it says 'rx--translate-form: Unknown rx
form ‘symbol’'
GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
3.24.5, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-10-23
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* Re: M O O N that spells moon
2021-03-21 2:18 M O O N that spells moon Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
@ 2021-03-21 9:09 ` tomas
2021-03-22 1:56 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 03:18:40AM +0100, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> I do `lua-mode', then it says 'rx--translate-form: Unknown rx
> form ‘symbol’'
>
> GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> 3.24.5, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-10-23
My hunch is that there's some rx form referring to a symbolic
rx (cf. [1]) named, appropriately `symbol' which it doesn't
find.
Possibly a botch in "your" lua-mode?
Sorry for not being more specific.
Cheers
[1] 34.3.3.3 Defining new ‘rx’ forms
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Extending-Rx.html
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2021-03-22 3:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor @ 2021-03-22 1:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
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tomas wrote:
> Possibly a botch in "your" lua-mode?
I now have
lua-mode-20201110.1250
and it works.
Why isn't there a built-in Lua mode BTW? :O
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* Re: M O O N that spells moon
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2021-03-24 14:26 ` TRS-80
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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor @ 2021-03-22 3:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Facts for fans:
Lua is moon in Portuguese. Made in Brazil:
In 1993, the only real contender was Tcl, which had been
explicitly designed to be embedded into applications.
However, Tcl had unfamiliar syntax, did not offer good
support for data description, and ran only on Unix
platforms. We did not consider LISP or Scheme because of
their unfriendly syntax. Python was still in its infancy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)>
The subject phrase is from a Stephen King character, Tom
Cullen, "[h]is speech pattern includes a number of verbal
tics: repetition, the phrases " M-O-O-N spells (x) [...]"
<https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Cullen>
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* Re: M O O N that spells moon
2021-03-22 3:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
@ 2021-03-24 14:26 ` TRS-80
2021-03-24 15:30 ` tomas
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From: TRS-80 @ 2021-03-24 14:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 2021-03-21 23:51, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text
editor wrote:
> ran only on Unix platforms
They considered this a bug and not a feature?
> We did not consider LISP or Scheme because of their unfriendly
> syntax
Unfriendly syntax?
Wew, lads!
Cheers,
TRS-80
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@ 2021-03-24 15:30 ` tomas
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:26:52AM -0400, TRS-80 wrote:
> On 2021-03-21 23:51, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs
> text editor wrote:
> >ran only on Unix platforms
>
> They considered this a bug and not a feature?
>
> >We did not consider LISP or Scheme because of their unfriendly
> >syntax
>
> Unfriendly syntax?
Those two traits belong together, because...
> Wew, lads!
... "Unix is user-friendly, it just chooses its friends"
(attributed to Andreas Bogk)
Cheers
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