From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On (Free)BASIC mode Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:28:44 +0530 Message-ID: <81tyjse4q3.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4CD66436.7060302@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289195953 27286 80.91.229.12 (8 Nov 2010 05:59:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 05:59:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs , Angelo Graziosi To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 08 06:59:08 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PFKl2-0006JF-0f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:59:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57293 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PFKl1-0008P4-OQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:59:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60098 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PFKkw-0008Mc-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:59:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFKkv-0000CC-8V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:59:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-gw0-f41.google.com ([74.125.83.41]:50925) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFKkv-0000C8-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:59:01 -0500 Original-Received: by gwb11 with SMTP id 11so3916437gwb.0 for ; Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:59:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:references :date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=aRkdrHDYjD6WgX0GuPK6y7tlTgGoAd+mQqwIxOijYqc=; b=T7Gv8se9OJ4lSXedhcMJlwqKUcuKDC4NzpmDGnf775ojFsNuisaU9ZPGQPli1xVDiK mojWOZXC8ZasQ7N6QkddfoKgdY6iT7R1756T0T0susqo7stvxAgEBGAWYwQsUQufRC+Y m8W1NBQIWzqvoY0R6DM51Ww19qk8tMCOp0QOA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=tEzMyzgHnd487hv21/UO9GhpB0gJoVf1y01It/8xsKOWPpj/e2dVr/dYOkUylaOTRu 5D7Vc7JMN90DRrdQmcGc9s63dl2LSoR4WLuYLzuwNI33boYPaOOgf7BlGhw6DNMs8e3T jGxNqfDKwWHgfGk5Jks+lZP9H1W0zQvih/U00= Original-Received: by 10.150.53.2 with SMTP id b2mr7954687yba.348.1289195940209; Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:59:00 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from JAMBU-NETBOOK ([115.184.68.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w5sm3404542ybe.10.2010.11.07.21.58.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:58:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:10:06 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:132439 Archived-At: >> In lisp/progmodes I see a lot of 'modes' for several programming languages, >> WHY not for (Free)BASIC [1]? > > Because noone has submitted one, I guess. > Also because the visual-basic-mode.el is supposedly only providing > support for a proprietary language (well, I don't know if the language > itself is protected in any way, but at least I only know of one > implementation for it and it's proprietary). > FWIW, the mono project has support for VB.NET - http://www.mono-project.com/VisualBasic.NET_support Jambunathan K.