From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>
Cc: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>,
"Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, aaron.s.hawley@gmail.com, dmhouse@gmail.com,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: Specifying mode in file variables trouble
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:55:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080925075544.GA18347@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877i90ralp.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:41:22AM +0200, Paul R wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
>
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:28:45 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de said:
>
> tomas> But I would be wary of pulling in a full-fledged XML machinery
> tomas> just to edit (pure) PHP source [...]
> The line has to be drawn at a point. We probably all agree that emacs
> memory consumption is sufficiently low with respect to current
> hardware. So I beleive this should not drive out features that make
> emacs DTRT when visiting a file.
It's only partially the computer's resources I am worried about. It's my
limited brain. I like the feeling I understand the tools I use (to some
extent).
> tomas> As an analogy, I'm regularly irked by reglar GNU/Linux distros
> tomas> installing Avahi-this or Evolution-that [...]
> I think this a different kind of problem (persistent storage
> consumption). And some distros offer you to choose dependency at build
> time, through build flags. Distros you are talking about are probably
> designed for ease of use and least surprise, and I bet they perform
> very well in this field. Aren't they ?
They do now, but you see a growing tendency of everything-depending-on-
everything-else, which is a pity, really. Because this modularity was a
strength of the UNIX-like systems.
> BTW, I hope we can get emacs distribution more modular during next
> cycle, so that you would not have to download and build a complex php
> mode if you never edit php.
This is a goal in itself, but the point I was trying to make is: if I
was a PHP programmer, I probably wouldn't like to have the whole
XML/HTML kaboodle in that as well *unless I needed it*. It was a plea to
make the mumamo approach itself more modular (I do applaud the multiple
major modes work very strongly!).
Regards
- -- tomas
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-20 0:44 Specifying mode in file variables trouble Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-20 0:48 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-20 0:59 ` Miles Bader
2008-09-20 1:06 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-21 6:32 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-21 12:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-21 23:34 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-22 0:38 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-22 4:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-22 13:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-22 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-22 14:26 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-23 4:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-23 9:29 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-23 19:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-22 23:11 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-23 4:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-23 9:47 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-23 19:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-23 20:43 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-24 13:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-24 13:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-24 17:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-25 5:49 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-25 6:28 ` tomas
2008-09-25 6:41 ` Paul R
2008-09-25 7:55 ` tomas [this message]
2008-09-25 8:35 ` Paul R
2008-09-25 16:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-09-27 4:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-21 19:16 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-22 5:21 ` tomas
2008-10-22 6:21 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-23 19:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-23 20:37 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-24 13:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-24 16:23 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-25 5:50 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-24 23:09 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-23 4:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-23 9:57 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-23 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-23 17:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-23 20:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-23 20:48 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-23 21:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-23 21:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-24 20:57 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-24 21:29 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-25 17:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-25 21:34 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-26 4:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-26 4:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-25 17:46 ` Selecting mumamo modes Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-25 21:12 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-26 4:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-21 19:20 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-23 19:47 ` Specifying mode in file variables trouble Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-23 20:26 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-24 20:56 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-24 21:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-25 17:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-25 21:36 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-26 4:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-24 20:57 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-24 21:45 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-20 19:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-20 23:34 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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