From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Creating new major mode Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:06:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <48D8B6B6.3020900@soton.ac.uk> <48DA02E6.1040808@soton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222269072 18370 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2008 15:11:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Paulo Jorge Matos Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 24 17:12:09 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KiVy1-0006x5-Cq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:07:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50029 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiVwz-0006Qd-8C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:06:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiVwj-0006QX-FE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:06:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KiVwh-0006PW-OZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:06:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35455 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KiVwh-0006PO-Jy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:49889) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KiVwg-0006LX-Vi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from thursday (BAHbc00.bah.pppool.de [77.135.188.0]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B221801D3EA; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:06:26 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <48DA02E6.1040808@soton.ac.uk> (Paulo Jorge Matos's message of "Wed\, 24 Sep 2008 10\:05\:42 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58012 Archived-At: Paulo Jorge Matos wrote: > 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? Well, "should" is relative. I absolutely suggest it, but it's strictly optional. Some newer modes also elect not to use it. Maybe take a look at the bundled css-mode. It's not too big and has a typical design. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher