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: prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:05:41 +0200 Message-ID: <83lir89gne.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ipmcgjot.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321985277 10614 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2011 18:07:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:07:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 22 19:07:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSul7-0003H8-3e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:07:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39079 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSul6-0007fp-Jx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:07:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSul0-0007fX-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:07:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSukz-0000jx-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:07:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:47617) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuky-0000jo-TL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:07:45 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LV200F00Q9DLX00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:07:33 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.237.133]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LV200ENVQCFUHJ0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:07:32 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87ipmcgjot.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:146155 Archived-At: > From: Ted Zlatanov > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:18:10 -0500 > > I'd like, instead of saying > > (define-derived-mode cfengine3-mode prog-mode "CFEngine3" ... > > to say something like: > > (define-derived-mode cfengine3-mode (if (fboundp 'prog-mode) prog-mode fundamental-mode) "CFEngine3" ... > > or something like it, which will keep the compiler happy and will work > in older Emacsen. I'd rather not maintain two versions of cfengine.el. > I don't use any prog-mode features in cfengine.el. Why can't you define a fake prog-mode in cfengine.el, if prog-mode is not already fboundp?