From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Price Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: writing new speedbar modes? Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 07:42:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <837gosnccn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354970589 23027 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2012 12:43:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 12:43:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 08 13:43:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ThJkT-0004Ea-DR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:43:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54441 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ThJkH-00027H-8K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:43:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ThJkA-00027A-4H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:42:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ThJk9-0003fY-21 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qc0-f169.google.com ([209.85.216.169]:48088) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ThJk7-0003eR-HT; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:42:55 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-qc0-f169.google.com with SMTP id t2so820499qcq.0 for ; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 04:42:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=fpSnluiLwbMkvmMCCsqpcOZAowf6wZy9GfThY5DOzQ0=; b=mwZpmctvIO00QoEcTKH1bj8KA1Z7Lh1N774azxOwxGqLE57Jh5a/Q4/I3xegQuzW9n wSvWnewcMzMcQz92pDM5r6OP7/wINuHOdFkbJ7D+9wM0sc7T4wEHrqeSHiw8CWi/OqWS GrbxM0vdpbPcdvTlEsZsG8GAsetYhnUmrA8ENznNDU+mLFWSer6lKB9S/5jVsFpvhSNC jlayIb+Grpryd4o9DolCRx9Zah3U7ZLts95yVyElNci128W+JYPzAhJt7MyGKpjfn38F 65HsVbRPcz/UhKT9aA2rVM1U80f/d9gwmRI5aGKqlDTJXkrA1ynKVmUwnUe/8pSBapEC Pbfw== Original-Received: by 10.224.59.83 with SMTP id k19mr2838823qah.56.1354970574740; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 04:42:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.49.132.169 with HTTP; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 04:42:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <837gosnccn.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.216.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88089 Archived-At: On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 21:09:19 -0500 >> From: Matt Price >> >> I need towrite a new major mode for speedbar (for the Scrivener >> project I've described elsewhere on this list), but it looks a little >> harder than I can handle on my own. Has anyone out there done this >> already, or can you point me to an example that might be relatively >> easy to follow? I'd really appreciate it! > > Forgive me for asking the obvious, but did you read the "Extending" > chapter of the Speedbar manual? That manual comes with Emacs. > > If the above chapter doesn't give you enough information, please > consider submitting a documentation bug report. > I did read it, but I don't understand big parts of it. I can file a bug I guess, but what might help me would be to see a real example of a major mode, after which I can start editing the work of a competent coder... I will go ahead and file a bug, though. thanks, matt