From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnu.emacs.sources ettiqutte question Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:16:59 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87fyfy5pf8.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: <1155603049.974865.106650@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155634880 16650 80.91.229.2 (15 Aug 2006 09:41:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:41:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 15 11:41:19 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCvQ5-00088G-L4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:41:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCvQ4-0001Rd-UY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:41:08 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-11!sn-xt-sjc-08!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wwjzQaCiJ6sLtHzJFY7prM2HmS0= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 32 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141069 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36694 Archived-At: "Þorne" writes: > I wrote a generic mode for syntax highlighting IBM AS/400 CL (Control > Language) files. It seems to work so far. > > Leaving aside the question of who really cares or wants such an obscure > thing, i am wondering about the rules for posting on gnu.emacs.sources. > Emacs is free and the code for the mode is free, but it is only useful > for editing files which only run on a distinctly non-free operating > system--and one for which i suspect there is no free replacement going > to be written... ever. > > So i guess there is an analogy with, say, an editing mode for java > files back when there was no free java compiler. Or something. > Anyway, i'm interested to know if posting such a thing would likely be > frowned upon. > > Thanks. > I don't think there should be any problem. When you think about it, emacs runs on a number of non-free platforms, such as Windows, VAX, Solaris, True64 etc. There are also many modes which interact with non-free applications, such as sql-mode, plsql-mode etc. I also know people use emacs modes to edit sources used with non-free software, such as compilers etc. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au