From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new awk-mode Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 20:12:21 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200205080012.g480CLW08634@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200205041502.g44F2Gn01234@aztec.santafe.edu> <200205052331.g45NVha29859@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020816924 14071 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2002 00:15:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 00:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stefan Monnier" , Richard Stallman , arnold@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, zwang@post.cis.smu.edu, Alan Mackenzie Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 175F76-0003eq-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 02:15:24 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 175FEy-0003m2-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 02:23:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175F75-00024A-00; Tue, 07 May 2002 20:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 175F4k-0001u4-00; Tue, 07 May 2002 20:12:58 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g480CLW08634; Tue, 7 May 2002 20:12:21 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Miles Bader Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3690 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3690 > > I'm confused. Is that the version that is intended to be cc-awk.el > > (i.e. part of CC-mode) that someone was working on ? > > No. As far as I can see, it's the same as the `old' awk-mode, except > with lots of menus added. > > Most of the menu entries seem to actually be `documentation,' where each > menu entry label contains a short summary of a function or variable's > usage, and selecting it inserts the summary as a sort of `template'. I hope it uses `define-skeleton' to define those templates. > I'm not entirely sure if the menus are the best place for all this info, > but it might be handy (I'm forever browsing the manual whenever I write > an awk program). > > There are other small changes too, but they _seem_ to actually be > reversions, possibly because he based his code on an older copy of > awk-mode.el than is in CVS (it's hard to tell because he sent the whole > file instead of a patch). Then he should probably get in touch with Alan Mackenzie so they can work together (Alan has been working on integrating awk-mode into CC-mode to get an awk-specific indentation algorithm rather than use the c-mode indentation which is all too often wrong). Stefan