From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2? Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:48:24 -0400 Message-ID: <5683A82C-C186-45EB-9290-76F87859E353@merrillpress.com> References: <7b501d5c0908091634ndfba631vd9db6502db301097@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249865324 1652 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2009 00:48:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:48:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Deniz Dogan , Lennart Borgman , Emacs-Devel devel To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 10 02:48:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MaJ41-0007i4-04 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:48:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53358 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MaJ40-0001Ca-GC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaJ3v-0001CV-FO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:48:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaJ3s-0001Ar-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:48:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53332 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MaJ3r-0001Ao-RS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:48:27 -0400 Original-Received: from vpn.merrillpress.com ([64.61.107.78]:51844) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MaJ3r-0007qP-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:48:27 -0400 Original-Received: from cpe-67-246-181-235.buffalo.res.rr.com ([67.246.181.235] helo=[192.168.1.103]) by mars.merrillpress.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MaJ3q-00038x-5W; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:48:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113910 Archived-At: On Aug 9, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Leo wrote: > Why not fix bugs in js2-mode? Having two packages providing similar > features is a burden to maintainers as well as users. Because js2-mode is an abomination? Oh, it's not so bad that it's slow and unmaintained: that description applies to lots of code in Emacs. The problem is that js2-mode operates fundamentally differently from other modes, eschews font-lock, parses the buffer *asynchronously*, and generally goes against every possible convention for implementing a major mode.