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: python-mode (python.el): python-backspace Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 21:25:35 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084930239 14268 80.91.224.253 (19 May 2004 01:30:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 01:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 19 03:30:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQFui-0001xq-00 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 03:30:32 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQFui-0002IP-00 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 03:30:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQFty-0006rQ-5S for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 21:29:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQFsL-0006Hp-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 21:28:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQFpw-0005bu-MJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 21:26:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQFpw-0005bg-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 21:25:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BQFpv-0001VX-8g; Tue, 18 May 2004 21:25:35 -0400 Original-To: quarl+dated+1085292963.d0b661@nospam.quarl.org In-reply-to: (message from Karl Chen on Mon, 17 May 2004 23:19:47 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23675 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23675 There could be a python electric minor mode. That would be a good way to handle it. Is any sort of "global electric" customization/variable that tells packages to turn on some default level of electricity? No, and I don't see that it makes sense, given that these features are ideosyncratic for specific modes. If every major mode, or many of them, had some sort of electric backspace, it would make sense to have a uniform way to turn them on. But they don't.