From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:06:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hb1qb9ot.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877h2ngnhb.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:57:36 +0100 Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
RS> On Fri, Nov 25 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
RS> | On Tue, Nov 22 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote:
RS> | > I think that
RS> | > (unless (fboundp 'prog-mode) (defalias 'prog-mode 'fundamental-mode))
RS> | > should do the trick.
>> I'll change the non-Emacs one so it explains this and has compatibility
>> code.
RS> Please don't define/defalias prog-mode, because other code might test
RS> for (fboundp 'prog-mode) an expect a real prog-mode.
RS> ,----[ (info "(elisp)Coding Conventions") ]
RS> | * If a package needs to define an alias or a new function for
RS> | compatibility with some other version of Emacs, name it with the
RS> | package prefix, not with the raw name with which it occurs in the
RS> | other version. Here is an example from Gnus, which provides many
RS> | examples of such compatibility issues.
RS> |
RS> | (defalias 'gnus-point-at-bol
RS> | (if (fboundp 'point-at-bol)
RS> | 'point-at-bol
RS> | 'line-beginning-position))
RS> `----
Understood, thanks!
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-27 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 17:18 prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-22 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-22 18:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-22 22:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-11-23 2:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-23 6:03 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-23 13:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-24 6:03 ` Chong Yidong
2011-11-25 13:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-26 10:57 ` Reiner Steib
2011-11-27 2:06 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-12-01 15:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-02 16:12 ` changes to cfengine-mode (was: prog-mode not available in earlier Emacsen, need help with cfengine.el) Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-02 20:32 ` changes to cfengine-mode Stefan Monnier
2011-12-07 11:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-07 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-08 9:52 ` Chong Yidong
2011-12-13 17:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-13 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-13 21:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-17 0:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-21 11:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-13 17:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-12-07 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-13 15:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
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