From: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Make font-lock honor parents mode of current major-mode
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:15:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ei7hw2mk.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv62stqigi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:37:48 -0500")
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On Wed, Feb 09 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> This allows to add font-lock keyword to prog-mode directly, so every other
>> children mode will use them.
>
> Making inheritance work with font-lock keywords is a good idea, but this
> is the wrong way to do it. The right way is to take advantage of the
> way inheritance works. E.g. use a variable which modes would
> *modify* rather than just set. E.g. somehow convince all modes to use
> the equivalent of font-lock-add-keywords.
I may not have enough knowledge of modes and font-lock to understand the
way you describe. Would you mind ellaboring a bit so I can maybe work on
that? :)
--
Julien Danjou
❱ http://julien.danjou.info
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-09 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-08 18:43 [PATCH 1/2] Add new function derived-mode-parents Julien Danjou
2011-02-08 18:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] Make font-lock honor parents mode of current major-mode Julien Danjou
2011-02-09 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-09 17:15 ` Julien Danjou [this message]
2011-02-09 21:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-10 9:25 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-10 18:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-08 21:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add new function derived-mode-parents Stefan Monnier
2011-02-08 21:19 ` Julien Danjou
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