Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>Attached is the latest version of the new vera-mode.el for review and
>>addition to the Emacs distribution.
> 
> 
> - What's end-comment-column?  Sounds like comment-fill-column.

This is a remnant from vhdl-mode, but it's not used in vera-mode.  I've 
removed it.

> - It seems the language allows both //...\n and /*...*/ for comments, but the
>   comment-start-skip does not reflect that.  And it should also define the
>   corresponding comment-end-skip.

Fixed (even though I haven't found comment-end-skip in any of the 
existing modes).

> - Also it should not (require 'font-lock) and neither should it call
>   (turn-on-font-lock).

People often asked why fontification is not on by default, so I just 
explicitely turned it on here.  Is it on in the latest Emacs release? 
Seems odd if not.  I made above changes.

> - The call to easy-menu-define should be at toplevel rather than inside
>   vera-mode.  And then the call to easy-menu-add should refer to
>   vera-mode-menu rather than vera-mode-menu-list (which could be inlined
>   into the call to easy-menu-define and then removed).

Done.

> - The calls to modify-syntax-entry should not be at toplevel and neither
>   should the (setq vera-mode-syntax-table (make-syntax-table)).  Best is to
>   move it all inside the "defvar vera-mode-syntax-table" in the usual form
>   (defvar vera-mode-syntax-table (let ((st (make-syntax-table))) ... st)).

Done.

Reto