From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sh-script.el and magic numbers
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 08:18:34 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301221418.IAA21641@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84hec1tw3c.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de)
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
It seems my last message didn't go through. What I meant is, why
doesn't sh-script.el contain (defun sh-mode ...) and (defun csh-mode
...) and (defun tcsh-mode ...)?
It seems to me, if it did, then people could just put "-*- csh -*-"
in the first line of their script and Bob's their uncle.
sh-script.el was not written that way, because it assumes that a
shell-script either has a #! line or is an obvious configuration file,
style .bashrc. We are now trying to make some changes to
sh-script.el, to make it usable without these assumptions.
I believe that defining a bunch of derived modes of sh-mode would
correspond to a substantial rewrite of sh-script.el and, actually a
radical change in style and philosophy.
I do not believe it is necessary to go that far. What seems needed is
fixing a concrete bug in sh-get-indent-info, maybe some similar not
yet discovered bugs elsewhere in the indentation machinery (let us
hope not), making sh-shell-file a permanent local, adding a couple of
lines to the mode documentation and maybe make sh-mode add a small and
simple function to find-file-hook. These are all small local changes,
whereas the change you propose would be a lot more radical. Let us
also not forget that in most, be it definitely not all, situations the
implicit assumptions made by sh-script.el are actually satisfied.
Sorry for misunderstanding your original message.
Sincerely,
Luc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-22 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-19 3:24 sh-script.el and magic numbers Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-19 12:47 ` Ehud Karni
2003-01-19 23:48 ` Glenn Morris
2003-01-20 7:59 ` Ehud Karni
2003-01-21 0:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-21 10:49 ` Glenn Morris
2003-01-21 15:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-21 15:44 ` Glenn Morris
2003-01-21 16:04 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-21 17:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-21 23:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-23 8:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-22 0:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-21 16:54 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-21 19:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-21 20:00 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-22 8:41 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-22 14:18 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2003-01-22 20:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-01-23 1:12 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-01-20 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
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