From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: rainbow-mode Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:02:27 +0900 Message-ID: <87zkt8d2cs.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87mxpabjj3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8762vyz5rl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <5D7ECAE48B634FAEAA14E2BDCA4EAAD7@us.oracle.com> <8762vxetuf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289966478 31641 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2010 04:01:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 17 05:01:14 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIZCr-00040A-99 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 05:01:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PIZCq-0002G3-HR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51056 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PIZCj-0002Fu-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:01:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIZCi-0001zB-DZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.254.161]:52448) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIZCi-0001yu-2u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:01:04 -0500 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss71 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018402AF543; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:01:02 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.97.223]) by imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F042AF542; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:01:01 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55873FA0522; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:01:01 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B28E11A3C15; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:02:27 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:132764 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > > > I'm not quite sure what you mean to say here. Is it "this > > > is something that so many people want in Emacs that it's > > > been partially reimplemented half a dozen times"? > > > > IIRC, the most recent discussion concluded that none of the half- > > implemented modes is good enough, especially given the nice features > > in the other half-implemented modes, and nobody stepped up to the > > plate to merge them, document the result, and make sure the result > > conforms to coding standards etc. > > YRW. Or you are inventing. Nope. See Ted Z's post; others understood what I was talking about even if my description was imprecise or even inaccurate (as signaled "IIRC", in any case). I'm just not writing for (setq audience (list "Drew Adams"))