bug#35148: [PATCH] change wordstar-mode into a minor mode

[Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>]

Bumping for attention.  I'll push this in a few days or so otherwise.

On 04/04/19 at 01:53pm, Mark Oteiza wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently got some testing/confirmation that this does work as
> expected, so pinging the list again to ask what I should do here.
> I don't have strong feelings over whether this gets nudged out of
> obsolete/ or gets moved over to ELPA.
> 
> The original thread is here:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-02/msg00467.html
> 
> On 12/02/17 at 12:32pm, Mark Oteiza wrote:
> > I was poking through obsolete/ the other day and happened upon
> > ws-mode.el and subsequently the thread
> > 
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-05/msg00127.html
> > 
> > The following changes `wordstar-mode' into a minor mode, and also
> > adds a global minor mode `global-wordstar-mode', which will turn on
> > wordstar-mode in all buffers except the minibuffer.
> > 
> > diff --git a/lisp/obsolete/ws-mode.el b/lisp/obsolete/ws-mode.el
> > index 62cccf725a..f977bc089e 100644
> > --- a/lisp/obsolete/ws-mode.el
> > +++ b/lisp/obsolete/ws-mode.el
> > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> > -;;; ws-mode.el --- WordStar emulation mode for GNU Emacs
> > +;;; ws-mode.el --- WordStar emulation mode for GNU Emacs -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
> >  
> >  ;; Copyright (C) 1991, 2001-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >  
> > @@ -24,9 +24,20 @@
> >  
> >  ;;; Commentary:
> >  
> > -;; This emulates WordStar, with a major mode.
> > +;; This provides emulation of WordStar with a minor mode.
> >  
> >  ;;; Code:
> > +
> > +(defgroup wordstar nil
> > +  "WordStar emulation within Emacs."
> > +  :prefix "wordstar-"
> > +  :prefix "ws-"
> > +  :group 'emulations)
> > +
> > +(defcustom wordstar-mode-lighter " WordStar"
> > +  "Lighter shown in the modeline for `wordstar' mode."
> > +  :type 'string)
> > +
> >  (defvar wordstar-C-k-map
> >    (let ((map (make-keymap)))
> >      (define-key map " " ())
> > @@ -98,8 +109,7 @@ wordstar-C-o-map
> >      (define-key map "wh" 'split-window-right)
> >      (define-key map "wo" 'other-window)
> >      (define-key map "wv" 'split-window-below)
> > -    map)
> > -  "")
> > +    map))
> >  
> >  (defvar wordstar-C-q-map
> >    (let ((map (make-keymap)))
> > @@ -174,12 +184,9 @@ wordstar-mode-map
> >  ;; wordstar-C-j-map not yet implemented
> >  (defvar wordstar-C-j-map nil)
> >  
> > -
> > -(put 'wordstar-mode 'mode-class 'special)
> > -
> >  ;;;###autoload
> > -(define-derived-mode wordstar-mode fundamental-mode "WordStar"
> > -  "Major mode with WordStar-like key bindings.
> > +(define-minor-mode wordstar-mode
> > +  "Minor mode with WordStar-like key bindings.
> >  
> >  BUGS:
> >   - Help menus with WordStar commands (C-j just calls help-for-help)
> > @@ -189,8 +196,18 @@ wordstar-mode
> >   - Search and replace (C-q a) is only available in forward direction
> >  
> >  No key bindings beginning with ESC are installed, they will work
> > -Emacs-like.")
> > -
> > +Emacs-like."
> > +  :group 'wordstar
> > +  :lighter wordstar-mode-lighter
> > +  :keymap wordstar-mode-map)
> > +
> > +(defun turn-on-wordstar-mode ()
> > +  (when (and (not (minibufferp))
> > +             (not wordstar-mode))
> > +    (wordstar-mode 1)))
> > +
> > +(define-globalized-minor-mode global-wordstar-mode wordstar-mode
> > +  turn-on-wordstar-mode)
> >  
> >  (defun wordstar-center-paragraph ()
> >    "Center each line in the paragraph at or after point.