From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: derived-mode should provide default abbrev-table Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:48:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4E0E085D.8070007@online.de> References: <4E0D8168.80704@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309546904 13429 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2011 19:01:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 19:01:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 01 21:01:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qciy8-0002sZ-MD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:01:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36661 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qciy7-0006SU-GE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:01:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60171) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QchpJ-0003Uq-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:48:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QchpI-0000d4-3G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:48:25 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:53538) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QchpH-0000cc-IE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:48:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4d0c0fc3.pool.mediaWays.net [77.12.15.195]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MPeS5-1QhOnC450T-004fuu; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:48:20 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 SUSE/3.1.11 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:vCgEm5Erl8D3kP/6q1C8G1JTWopMidCe5O+3D4h2E2E 6vsP7a26u/E081aqfpwZMI9dlDGJyjgqY+f0Iski7G5IS230SP FD3GgkhJtfpz14bdW64BunYZFTWvC7YchVvGJT5E8eMC8SaZme rV4JxZi8GGzpsd9aItwK/U/NnecmRbaRpt9OVPRsgKF59mPCSG 559LmqcFNpxzTgLkCM2mrTxcE+BeqvUo04CcepvE9g= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.17.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:141401 Archived-At: > >> - If a name is given which doesn't represent a valid table, the mode hook >> should make an empty one from it silently. > > No, that's not how it works: we do not want to encourage the use of > non-standard abbrev-table names. > > > Stefan > Hm, that's not plausible for me. Could you tell the reason? A derived mode will probable deserve a new table of it's own, if the parent table is not suitable. What kind of standard you see in danger here which respect to mode-name? Or to say: to give a choice but making it complicate using it, sounds a little bit, hmm... Andreas