From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36759: 26.1; nftables major mode Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 11:07:12 +0300 Message-ID: <834l2pa1fz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d0i2ecma.fsf@goll.lan> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="116796"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 36759@debbugs.gnu.org To: trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 10 10:08:09 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hwMQ4-000UFN-Ti for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 10:08:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35330 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hwMQ3-0008Hh-DD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 04:08:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55144) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hwMPz-0008Az-5C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 04:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hwMPy-0000m1-8n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 04:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hwMPy-0000lt-5d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 04:08:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hwMPx-0004br-Ru for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 04:08:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 08:08:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36759 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 36759-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36759.156542444617628 (code B ref 36759); Sat, 10 Aug 2019 08:08:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36759) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Aug 2019 08:07:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43411 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hwMPO-0004aG-9L for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 04:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42751) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hwMPL-0004Zw-PJ for 36759@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 04:07:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50634) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hwMPG-0000UW-Mh; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 04:07:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3084 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hwMPG-00022Q-2y; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 04:07:18 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d0i2ecma.fsf@goll.lan> (trentbuck@gmail.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:164822 Archived-At: > From: trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:45:33 +1000 > > nftables is a Linux kernel firewall. > > Its configuration uses a complex BNF where many keywords are repeated; > they mean different things in different places. > > I want syntax highlighting and smart indentation for such files, > because they're very hard to read in just conf-mode, > even with some conf-space-keywords. > > I couldn't find a major mode for this, so I wrote a basic one. > This is working well enough for today, but I don't have the time or > interest to maintain it properly. > > If someone else is prepared to adopt it and get it into mainline Emacs, > that would be FANTASTIC. Sorry for the delay in responding. Would it be possible to rewrite this mode using define-generic-mode? See generic-x.el for some example of using that macro. If using generic.el is somehow impossible or impractical, then could you please format your code as a separate Lisp file according to our conventions (see any of the *.el files in the Emacs tree for an example), add a NEWS entry, and submit that in the "git format-patch" form? Bonus points for adding tests based on your example file. Thanks.