From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: arm-mode Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:37:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="176228"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Charles Jackson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 11 04:37:59 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hwdk4-000jd9-JP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Aug 2019 04:37:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38654 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hwdk3-0004Sy-0X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hwdju-0004Se-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hwdjt-00031L-Vo; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hwdjo-0004cs-6R; Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:37:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Charles Jackson on Sat, 10 Aug 2019 16:02:44 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:239317 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. ]]] > Arm-mode is not meant as a replacement for asm-mode; It is > specialized for Arm assembler language. I provides specialized > syntax highlighting and indentation (for a smaller file size). It > also uses Arm style comments (@ and /* */) instead of the ; used > in asm-mode. Did you define it as a derivative on asm-mode? That is the clean way to do it. Does it offer any additional features, or only specialize the asm-mode features? I ask because, if there are additional features, it would be useful to generalize them and put them into asm-mode. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)