From: Paulo Jorge Matos <pocm@soton.ac.uk>
To: Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Creating new major mode
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:05:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DA02E6.1040808@soton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EMEW-k8MK2cf73177e81b278b031d7d8b57c991f680-m263om664x.fsf@nschum.de>
Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:
> Paulo Jorge Matos <pocm@soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> When should generic-modes or derived-modes be created?
>
> Generally, I suggest you just derive any mode from fundamental-mode.
> That takes care of most the house keeping, and you'll only need to add
> what you actually want.
>
> Maybe you should look at more recent and smaller modes than lisp-mode to
> learn. Look around in the Emacs Wiki.
>
Thank you. It seems then that the issue is that some modes predate the
existence of the derived-mode API. New modes should use though, right?
I will check the wiki out for new modes, thanks! :)
>
> regards,
> Nikolaj Schumacher
>
>
--
Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm
PhD Student @ ECS
University of Southampton, UK
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2008-09-23 9:28 Creating new major mode Paulo Jorge Matos
2008-09-23 18:58 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <EMEW-k8MK2cf73177e81b278b031d7d8b57c991f680-m263om664x.fsf@nschum.de>
2008-09-24 9:05 ` Paulo Jorge Matos [this message]
2008-09-24 15:06 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-09-24 21:52 ` Paulo J. Matos
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2008-09-25 5:36 ` Tim X
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