From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cperl-mode and fontlock
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:50:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws34tycv.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnhctv4p.d2b.nospam-abuse@chorin.math.berkeley.edu
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:04:25 +0000 (UTC) Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> wrote:
IZ> On 2009-09-28, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>> Ilya, it looks like Chong Yidong has synchronized 6.2 into the Emacs
>> trunk.
IZ> How much does it differ from what was done a decade ago? That time
IZ> a brave guy volunteered and converted cperl-mode to new conventions.
IZ> Only years of user experiences had shown that this introduced so many
IZ> bugs that the mode is IMO unusable.
I don't know, sorry. I am only trying to get you to discuss it on
emacs-devel.
>> Can you follow up on emacs-devel and clear up any remaining issues?
IZ> Could not find it on gmane.emacs.devel...
Here's a reference:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/115635/focus=115643
>> I'd like to make sure the Emacs version of cperl-mode doesn't
>> get out of sync again, and it's good that Chong (one of the two current
>> Emacs maintainers) feels strongly enough to synchronize against your
>> version.
IZ> The only practically viable solution I can see is to aim for identical
IZ> byte-code between "my" version and Emacs's one... (At least with some
IZ> "define"; the default compile may aim for distinct bytecode, but all
IZ> the corresponding places in the .el file should be easily identifyable...)
I don't know if this is practical for everyone, but I hope you can
discuss it on emacs-devel.
Thanks
Ted
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[not found] <mailman.6904.1253227091.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-25 10:08 ` cperl-mode and fontlock Ilya Zakharevich
2009-09-25 22:29 ` Harry Putnam
2009-09-26 1:46 ` Harry Putnam
2009-09-26 2:30 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.7552.1253917816.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-28 14:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-10-09 9:04 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2009-10-09 14:50 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2009-10-09 21:48 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2009-10-14 15:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-10-09 8:29 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2009-10-09 13:41 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.7555.1253929616.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-29 9:48 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2009-09-29 16:03 ` Harry Putnam
2009-09-30 6:25 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-09-30 6:28 ` Harry Putnam
2009-09-17 22:37 Harry Putnam
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