From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jose E. Marchesi" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: a mode for algol 68 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:33:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87r0k7a31e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3R4QN2M2RR03N.2G0ADM6I6F823@venera> <87h6l390o3.fsf@posteo.net> <3MK0RH5X3RU1M.2EGMR40E2C1SK@venera> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38018"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: Philip Kaludercic , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Omar Polo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 30 12:34:40 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r8fJX-0009eY-ST for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:34:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r8fIv-0004h5-9A; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 06:34:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r8fIs-0004fY-Fp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 06:33:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r8fIp-0006qI-Qn; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 06:33:55 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:To: From; bh=nhYPXH2hpg4ILjUwp39ClYM6ba8VDNLnje/eMfTH8kA=; b=OjnphrKfUkoje4ewtBxA JR2nyo5QnXaUPZt/nqSmGrzVw/1KqOF2RvxrWoXV8rlT4flvO9pJ3JPcyJMvTEQ+mVShvp0ZbZ+sn ZhRJA90yHSbIzIoaX3Ze1KI6+PVPtdV2n7NYZSY8G87b2uV8EhrEaGiDeVOB4QdMCz2aQlVHvMIrk IPt8XcuPnBXWTjEp1ls6ndv6dy7XCSXD77Bv/piiFWlvqgV4EJhRY+VZTV2faMqarslgZQ4Tr2LsW evFB6LIIjKvVdpZjc1kLeA8dVDTlf5rD6KCzjqnTI5hTRDBcbMFqK1sc51hJLJJ7o5R7wcQpa77fc 7nMim1XTyPeKSw==; In-Reply-To: <3MK0RH5X3RU1M.2EGMR40E2C1SK@venera> (Omar Polo's message of "Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:19:03 +0100") X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:313393 Archived-At: > On 2023/11/30 07:10:20 +0000, Philip Kaludercic wrote: >> Omar Polo writes: >> >> > (please Cc: me since I'm not subscribed to this list) >> > >> > Two years ago I started hacking on Jose E. Marchesi' algol-mode (that >> > I've renamed a68-mode) while I was playing with the algol68g compiler. >> > Truth to be told, I think I've spent more time hacking on the emacs mode >> > that with the language itself, but anyway... >> > >> > I haven't touched the mode any more for the last two years, and I doubt >> > I'll hack again on it in the future. Although it's almost finished, >> > there remains issues with the indentation and font-locking in some >> > cases. >> > >> > My hope would be that some friendly hacker would take interest in >> > maintaining it and maybe even distribute it in ELPA / NonGNU Elpa. >> >> I think it would be very nice to have this added to GNU ELPA. If the >> code works (and I see it isn't too much), it shouldn't be too much of a >> maintenance burden, so I'd be fine with helping out. >> >> > On the copyright side, I don't know Jose E. Marchesi and I copied >> > initial the code from some random github repository. Not great, I know, >> > but it was the only major mode for algol68. However, I *do* have an FSF >> > copyright assignment and I ended up rewriting almost all of the code in >> > the end. I paied attention to do the 'initial import' with the original >> > code as-is and do my changes on top. It's 53 commits in total. >> >> I cannot evaluate this myself, do you a link to the original GitHub >> repository? > > I took the code from > https://github.com/lachrymology/me/blob/master/.emacs.d/extras/algol-mode.el > but upon a closer look it seems to originate from here: > https://www.jemarch.net/algol68.html > > I'm cc'ing Jose E. Marchesi using the mail found on (presumibly) their > website. Having a @gnu.org account makes me think that there shouldn't > be copyright issues :-) I have papers in place for Emacs, and I am totally willing to transfer the copyright for a68-mode.el's original code (whatever of it survives in latest algol-mode.el) to the FSF. > I apologize for not searching better initially, I should have contacted > Marchesi in the first place. I somehow have completely missed their > website. > >> > The code is available here for browsing here: >> > >> > and can be cloned with git via anonymous SSH via >> > or with HTTPS via >> > . >> > >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Omar Polo