bug#44037: Synchronising mixal-mode with GNU MDK's latest release

[jao <jao@gnu.org>]

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On Sat, Oct 17 2020, Stefan Kangas wrote:

[...]

>> Yes, that's no problem.  I am not the original author of the mode, so
>> back in the day I didn't pay attention, but my elisp skills have
>> improved enough in the intervening 20 years and i'm happy to take care
>> of it now :)
>
> Thanks!  Should you want to make it more official, feel free to send a
> patch to update the "Maintainer" field with your name and email address.

Sure, patch attached.

> BTW, we are trying to push to convert code to use the new lexical scope.
> If you find some time, it would be great if you could test the attached
> patch that enables it for mixal-mode.el.  (It would be hard for me to
> verify that it works since I don't use GNU MDK myself.)

I've played with it a bit and there's no obvious problem with the switch
(this is just a mode for an assembly-like language without fancy
stuff).  Please feel free to install the patch.

Thanks,
jao
-- 
"I didn't do it, and I'll never do it again."
 -Derrik Weeks


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From b93cd45f3c2a044d82bb45c9b0a57ab51862259d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 22:58:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Set jao@gnu.org as maintainer of mixal-mode.el

---
 lisp/progmodes/mixal-mode.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/mixal-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/mixal-mode.el
index 9354af2085..92389c5a62 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/mixal-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/mixal-mode.el
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ;; Copyright (C) 2003-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Author: Pieter E.J. Pareit <pieter.pareit@gmail.com>
-;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
+;; Maintainer: Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org>
 ;; Created: 09 Nov 2002
 ;; Version: 0.4
 ;; Keywords: languages, Knuth, mix, mixal, asm, mixvm, The Art Of Computer Programming
-- 
2.28.0