From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bugs caused by recent use of define-derived-mode Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:46:30 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200209020237.VAA26080@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200209031457.g83EvFr12475@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031193973 21122 127.0.0.1 (5 Sep 2002 02:46:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 02:46:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mmeq-0005UY-00 for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 04:46:12 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17mnEJ-0001WY-00 for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 05:22:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mmgR-0003aG-00; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:47:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mmfA-0003UR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:46:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mmf8-0003U9-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:46:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mmf8-0003U3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:46:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 17mmf8-000769-00; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:46:30 -0400 Original-To: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu In-Reply-To: <200209031457.g83EvFr12475@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7496 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7496 > One idea for how to fix the abbrev-table bugs is to modify > define-derived-mode to accept some optional keywords as arguments > before the body. :same-abbrev-table could mean to use the parent's > abbrev table unmodified, and :same-syntax-table would do likewise for > the syntax table. That's something we need indeed. I for one would need/want a :group argument as well. Would you like to implement them? (What would :group do?)