From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:58:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20160420194450.GA3457@acm.fritz.box> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1461351578 2553 80.91.229.3 (22 Apr 2016 18:59:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:59:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 22 20:59:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1atgIX-0003h7-VG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 20:59:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38087 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atgIX-0008WB-BZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53889) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atgI5-00080D-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:58:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atgI4-0000gF-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:58:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atgI2-0000ey-17; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:58:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1atgI1-00081G-C6; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:58:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <20160420194450.GA3457@acm.fritz.box> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:44:50 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:203187 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] The design seems to assume that every island starts with a one-character delimiter that always starts an island, and that there is anothehr one-character delimiter that always ends an island. Is that really the intention, or did I misunderstand? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.