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: Clojure mode Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:05:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87il9kksqz.fsf@dfreeman.email> <87a5uw9ivs.fsf@posteo.net> <87ttt42gna.fsf@dfreeman.email> <87wmy080kn.fsf@posteo.net> <83v8djcydl.fsf@gnu.org> <87350ndquw.fsf@dfreeman.email> <83350ncbns.fsf@gnu.org> <87cyzrjbd8.fsf@dfreeman.email> <83zg2vav46.fsf@gnu.org> <87o7j99304.fsf@dfreeman.email> <87zg2hsyrd.fsf@dfreeman.email> <87h6ontwfv.fsf@posteo.net> 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="14147"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: danny@dfreeman.email, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, manuel.uberti@inventati.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 26 04:05:22 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 1qZifx-0003Np-3N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2023 04:05:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qZifk-0001FX-8x; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:05:08 -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 1qZifj-0001FP-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:05:07 -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 1qZifi-000244-RJ; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:05:06 -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=e/LqS4/oNc5MZYo+RfUOO6e3Tnem078CxKQPMBG2Ho8=; b=XkScBXGrfRv3 NRC28vJOikR8KPQ6fO4wJ5aszK2ATZxiuzcVM/fu6oSDjGK8T7PItOIQEJ1e3dQEWXaf08fhHp2HA rJatSn5rF/53WLQz6mYJUzb9+e5wgAwk3QOPC7EqbbQbTxmQ8mcHOuZC/0uEE+ZHWOWcnwJ3pT7rR yBtj3F888YiyTPdTGl/u0fCuN2c7uTTadmiGow9ibicoZkNuQzC9fmRJgqS/jKH5r6CQlK/C7rsGT TZVNUsa0DSfqKEVe53hDRj62TKaziiGD2+KYnDtYKtg0Tb1F4Mmi3wH8tEXDLMov6mUAsd5LOOvHx 3xPE8fMFtBPqTZwbw55GQA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qZifg-0001un-MA; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:05:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h6ontwfv.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Fri, 25 Aug 2023 07:25:56 +0000) 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:309224 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. ]]] > > This could be done by getting copyright assignments for code in the > > NonGNU ELPA package, or by writing new code to replace it, or by a > > mixture of the two. > The issue here is, that the clojure-mode developers are mostly averse to > assigning their code to the FSF. What those people think should not be a crucial issue, because writing a major mode to handle a language is not a big job. We have dozens of them in Emacs. Lots of us here would be able to replace it. The trick is to start thinking of it as a module to be written, rather than as a need for something that we can't have; > , but one idea might be to extend lisp-data-mode by whatever the > syntactic differences are, to at least have some basic visual support in > terms of syntax highlighting and the like. It is fine to copy some code from an existing mode. I just advise people not to try to arrange to share the code between the two modes. I expect that the sharing would make for more complexity than it is worth. -- 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)