From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Specifying mode in file variables trouble Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:57:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <48D44761.6000809@gmail.com> <87ljxny6n8.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <48D44C79.9020004@gmail.com> <48D63F30.8060102@gmail.com> <48D6E8FB.4070108@gmail.com> <48D79A25.7050000@gmail.com> <48D8BD92.5080403@gmail.com> <48D950F9.6030401@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222290057 725 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2008 21:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 24 23:01:53 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 4.50) id 1KibUb-0000RJ-NX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:01:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KibTZ-0005X6-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KibSR-0004qJ-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:59:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KibSQ-0004ou-5t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49487 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KibSP-0004oX-T5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:59:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:43322) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KibSP-0007TM-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:59:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KibQN-0001mK-OZ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:57:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <48D950F9.6030401@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:104121 Archived-At: > The mechanism is just part of this. We also need an interface. There > are lots of minor mode definitions, and we want them to be simple and > clean. > > So please propose a change in minor mode definitions so as to do the > job. Then we can evaluate it and maybe propose better alternatives. I think the suggestions above may be sufficient, but that might be just because of lack of imagination/knowledge of Emacs ;-) Please show how you would change a few of the existing minor mode definitions to specify what to do here.