From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Core features needed for a lang-mode. Needed documentation? Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:59:40 +0300 Message-ID: <8338d4la2b.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407679216 5124 80.91.229.3 (10 Aug 2014 14:00:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 10 16:00:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XGTfN-0003JP-5D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:00:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59892 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XGTfM-0002Ao-PS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38157) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XGTfC-00026N-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XGTf3-0006vS-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 09:59:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:38313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XGTf3-0006vO-Ex for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 09:59:49 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NA300500FWHSF00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:59:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NA30053FG7NMMB0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:59:48 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:173540 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 13:45:17 +0800 > From: Elias M=C3=A5rtenson >=20 > 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 experi= ence > using it, so of course I don't know all things a lang-mode can do. >=20 > After thinking that my mode was pretty complete, I discovered thing= s like > imenu and speedbar which I had never used, but is actually pretty c= ool when > support was added for it. >=20 > Is there a comprehensive documentation anywhere which details all f= eatures > that such a mode can (should) implement? There's some documentation in the node "Major Mode Conventions" in th= e ELisp manual.