From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Major and minor modes Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:48:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87r2ym4wno.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <86k24f5o5u.fsf@zoho.com> <20170614074003.GA2968@workstation> <874lvj56dm.fsf@debian.uxu> <20170614085133.GA9145@tuxteam.de> <86bmpq6hvw.fsf@zoho.com> <20170614095854.GA10795@tuxteam.de> <87vany4x2s.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497440995 5782 195.159.176.226 (14 Jun 2017 11:49:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 11:49:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 14 13:49:51 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1dL6o2-0001Bv-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:49:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47958 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dL6o8-0007AF-2s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:49:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51633) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dL6nS-00079w-RO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dL6nO-0007zu-QL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44845 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dL6nO-0007zg-JG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:49:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dL6nF-0007CM-GC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:49:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:23IjTIN3HmPwFpwVpIyo3aByvDo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113454 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: >> There are tons of those -- everything "domain >> specific language" goes a bit in that direction. > > ... - how exactly do you define that? > > I always thought of Elisp, SQL, LaTeX, the dialects > of BASIC, etc. to be domain specific. Perhaps one should make a distinction between "platform specific" and "domain specific"? LaTeX is domain specific to documents and SQL is domain specific to databases. But Elisp, while platform specific to Emacs, the domain is limited only in the Turing sense, which I never pretended to understand anyway (except for on exam day). -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573