From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cperl-mode and fontlock Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:50:56 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87ws34tycv.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <873a67glr1.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255102871 18487 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2009 15:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:41:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 09 17:41:02 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MwHaL-0006mg-5y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:40:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41251 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MwHaK-0005uT-II for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:40:48 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net jDVOh60pdv61j7DJrnjAPeftpGNMRJ+nghUDCj/6bbHFsYv6E0uQ063m7ELnFalfkO0rAmuwoTiSM8RsDTo2nB1Zwzx1gSwkllK6Q4aR06V5EAZCAz17DlUtq0qqwF6i Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 14:50:56 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: 8hl52XptSMxu6XWilr3wJUVs6GQP4E/8pzKPG5WC9FE= X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Lhy+vMOE9EJzJ5tNHlLXoTgqwcs= sha1:rFISj5FsV4TJIpNcRxZBnZGfr/g= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: hH2sz92Pdsv9lP9PRGdkrecyNNAJSo4a1cwG+Zplplk= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173702 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68798 Archived-At: On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:04:25 +0000 (UTC) Ilya Zakharevich wrote: IZ> On 2009-09-28, Ted Zlatanov 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