From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: jinx Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 22:35:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sfdnyuxc.fsf@posteo.de> <83sfdl2z26.fsf@gnu.org> <86tty0ydnl.fsf@gnu.org> <83fs9k20tu.fsf@gnu.org> <86edp4yarm.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfdkysph.fsf@gnu.org> <86wn2woxov.fsf@gnu.org> <83mt3syq8h.fsf@gnu.org> <87pm8lxi1n.fsf@web.de> <83ttxxujmu.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfdhf07f.fsf@posteo.de> <87v8ibrfwa.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7502"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 05 04:36:14 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pjt0Q-0001jp-9x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:36:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pjt0E-0007K0-Ty; Tue, 04 Apr 2023 22:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pjt0C-0007Ge-TU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2023 22:36:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pjt0C-00017T-Iy; Tue, 04 Apr 2023 22:36:00 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=DilJPJbTRR4gZQK4Pycr2M9R2PkEDPdp4MnVRnshcRk=; b=pGQ0MnsTUYTX nUcnDfnuFv6y29M1TbRhRKJ73VKPtM0JBVgiFhVhLd+fdeXGUVjE7kwtVp+dwcYvTicxgdOrl28Sf C2PDLzR4KmwI/vPZsYmJoOQZb7EcZ4z4tGh1DX8fYJTJWBOOeAkchNMXuP6pOPxi+YFrtkwQcaIdC 9t7yuvW/jOywBhe7pc/XzK/0aRx+FFzh1ZT1G7lAEnV27etYP8aMqwwvXM2vGL+WW5AJqUrbyuXgU 1LebHqyF4P0FjaW0WpZ92ZIGo576SnE+GYl1Omw/+ctynhawWCm8VMPCC3Q+sS5nCdFADOAGtphI8 +ob9Kjq/snmbR5Q9XnncMA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pjt09-0001P3-Pa; Tue, 04 Apr 2023 22:35:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87v8ibrfwa.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:27:49 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:305119 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. ]]] > > Is it possible to rename this to a clearer name? Perhaps > > program-text-flyspell-mode, or something else? And then make it a > > proper major mode?, following all the conventions for major modes? > A major mode?? I think you misunderstood what it does. It's simply a > slightly modified flyspell-mode, conceptually clearly a minor-mode, I stand corrected. But the name is still unhelpful. It seems to enable Flyspell mode for strings and comments only. But you'd never guess that from its name. The name suggests it is a mode function, but I doesn't follow the conventions for those. Can those things be corrected? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)