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From: Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: add argument to a derived-mode
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 17:53:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170115175345.74388a17@gauss> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv37gkufao.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org>

On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 17:33:10 -0500
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:

> > Is it a requirement that major modes not take an argument?
> 
> Technically, not quite (it may be called with no arguments, so any
> argument it can accept should be optional).
> 
> > However, if it's considered bad form to pass arguments to them,
> > I'll make the change, which would allow using define-derived-mode.
> 
> Yes, it's considered bad form and likely to lead to problems sooner
> or later.

Thanks.  I made the changes.  Using define-derived-mode is certainly nicer.

-- 
Joe Riel




      reply	other threads:[~2017-01-16  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-13  0:38 add argument to a derived-mode Joe Riel
2017-01-13 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-15 20:49   ` Joe Riel
2017-01-15 22:33     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-16  1:53       ` Joe Riel [this message]

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