From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Ruby mode added Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:06:23 -0500 Message-ID: <87myf379eo.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <87y6yn26gk.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <200812101924.mBAJOA7G026325@mothra.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228961197 18964 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2008 02:06:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:06:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Phil Hagelberg , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 11 03:07:40 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LAaxm-0004C2-LV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:07:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58243 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LAawb-0005h5-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:06:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LAawW-0005gz-Ou for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:06:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LAawU-0005gN-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:06:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59609 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LAawU-0005gK-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:06:18 -0500 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:32889) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LAawU-00060F-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:06:18 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0585D57E1C8; Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:06:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200812101924.mBAJOA7G026325@mothra.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:24:10 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106783 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu writes: > Not exactly a problem, but isn't the preferred style for the > auto-mode-alist regexp to use \\' instead of $ ? Yes, fixed. > What's the latest on the policy for adding stuff to auto-mode-alist and > interpreter-mode-alist? Should it go in files.el or be autoloaded? I have not thought about this issue. Currently, both methods are in use, but this is not enough of a problem to warrant attention. Frankly, there are many more urgent things to work on. > Not ruby related, but given we are talking about auto-mode-alist: > shouldn't nxml be added to it somehow? We already have an xml-mode, which is more lightweight. It may be that nxml-mode is so much better that we should simply make it the default, but I'd prefer to leave this decision till after the release. (One reason not to make nxml-mode the default is that it is apparently unmaintained.)