From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Heuristics for: is a major-mode a "programming language" mode?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:12:00 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tylrup5r.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrni914er.deh.nospam-abuse@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu
Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> writes:
> I want a certain keypress act as forward-sexp in "programming
> language" modes, and as forward-sentence (sp?) in other modes
> (likewise for go-to-function-begin (sp?) and forward-paragraph (sp?)).
>
> So there must be some code which decides "which type" is the given
> major mode. I would prefer the bulk of the decision to be made
> programmatically, THEN let the user override if the auto-choice was
> wrong. Anyone with ideas how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ilya
>
> P.S. In addition to sexp/sentence and function/paragraph, are there
> other "merges" one can do to do navigation?
Hi Ilya,
Not sure if this will help, but in current emacs 24, there is note in
the NEWS file about a new mode called prog-mode, which is supposed to be
a parent mode for programming modes. I believe the supplied prog modes
in emacs have/are being updated to be derived from this mode.
The main role of this mode appears to be to run the hook prog-mode-hook.
Maybe this could be useful?
Tim
--
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-15 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-15 9:28 Heuristics for: is a major-mode a "programming language" mode? Ilya Zakharevich
2010-09-15 13:12 ` Tim X [this message]
2010-09-15 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-15 14:43 ` Xah Lee
2010-09-15 15:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-15 15:32 ` Xah Lee
2010-09-15 23:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 23:43 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2010-09-17 9:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 23:40 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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