Re: Restricting 'add-hook to a specific file extension

[Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>]

On 2006-03-05, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> One solution is derived-mode, but I've had no luck with it.
>
> Try harder.  No matter how hard it looks, it'll be easier than trying to fix
> the problems you'll get with the other approach.

 Stefan, I'm going to make you an offer, but first FYI:
 I code for a living, I've got 6 kids, 10 brother and sisters, aged
 parents and I belong to 2 churches. My R&D time is *very* limited.

 Your name is all over the place when I google keywords related to this
 topic, and I'm sure that you are an authority on this topic.

 So here's the offer: I'd *like* to create a derived-mode for the
 newlisp language, which is a lisp variant. I want it to be
 cross-compatible to Xemacs (which doesn't support
 font-lock-add-keywords).

 Give me a hand (via this newsgroup) and I will give you full credit for
 the results.

 I don't care about the credit. I just want to make it work.

 If you agree, and should you also think that this subject should expand
 to a tutorial, howto or wike component I will do the grunt work,
 documentation, whatever.
 
 I moved from vim to emacs a little over a year ago, I have found
 customizing for programming modes far more difficult than in vim and
 from my research in newsgroups and googling, I believe that I'm not the
 only one. 

 We could contribute significantly to the literature, methinks.
 Thanks
 tim

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