From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Core features needed for a lang-mode. Needed documentation?
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:59:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8338d4la2b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADtN0W+7QpunQQv7PXfCPDfy54E21U274QinJGO8honQMFc9ag@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 13:45:17 +0800
> From: Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com>
>
> In developing gnu-apl-mode, I have successively added more and more
> features that people seems to expect to exist in any language mode. My
> problem is that I'm a newbie at Emacs with only 20+ years of experience
> using it, so of course I don't know all things a lang-mode can do.
>
> After thinking that my mode was pretty complete, I discovered things like
> imenu and speedbar which I had never used, but is actually pretty cool when
> support was added for it.
>
> Is there a comprehensive documentation anywhere which details all features
> that such a mode can (should) implement?
There's some documentation in the node "Major Mode Conventions" in the
ELisp manual.
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2014-08-10 5:45 Core features needed for a lang-mode. Needed documentation? Elias Mårtenson
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