From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 13:13:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160614131305.GB4573@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k2hsbxfv.fsf@newartisans.com>
Hello, John.
Trust you've had a good holiday!
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 02:17:40PM -0700, John Wiegley wrote:
> >>>>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> > The essence of major mode support is buffer local variables. (Things like
> > the syntax table and local key map are basically buffer local variables,
> > even though they are not accessible as such from Lisp.) So, at first sight,
> > each "island" in the buffer needs its own set of "buffer local" variables.
> I don't agree that this is the essence of major mode support. Another aspect
> of major modes is an expectation of which text properties might occur
> throughout the buffer, and where and why.
OK. Shall we agree that the buffer local variables are a crucially
important part of what constitutes a major mode? :-) Clearly text
properties are important (indeed, in the case of, e.g., CC Mode
critically important) too.
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-20 19:44 A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-20 21:06 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-20 23:00 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-21 12:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-21 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-23 2:20 ` zhanghj
2016-04-23 22:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-04-21 16:05 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-21 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <<83oa926i0e.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-04-21 16:59 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-21 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<<64f1d39a-dfd0-44ca-86c1-b4d6104b5702@default>
[not found] ` <<<83oa926i0e.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <<791d74d1-2b1d-4304-8e7e-d6c31af7aa41@default>
[not found] ` <<83eg9y68jy.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-04-21 20:26 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-20 22:27 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-21 9:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-22 12:45 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-21 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-21 21:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-21 22:01 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-22 8:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-22 17:04 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-22 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-13 21:17 ` John Wiegley
2016-06-14 13:13 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2016-06-14 16:27 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-21 22:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-22 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-22 22:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-23 7:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-23 17:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-23 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-23 18:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-04-23 21:08 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-24 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-24 16:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-24 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-25 6:49 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-04-22 13:42 ` Andy Moreton
2016-04-23 17:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-22 14:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-04-22 18:58 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-22 20:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-23 12:27 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-04-23 12:38 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-23 17:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-24 9:22 ` Richard Stallman
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