From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 67008@debbugs.gnu.org, Ikumi Keita <ikumi@ikumi.que.jp>
Subject: bug#67008: 30.0.50; Multiple major mode parents
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 23:43:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F9C9B94F-01C2-4F2B-884B-DEE79BEF4826@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbkc3mqpd.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca>
> On Nov 8, 2023, at 9:38 PM, Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Package: Emacs
> Version: 30.0.50
>
>
> While it seems difficult to add support for multiple inheritance to
> `define-derived-mode`, it's fairly easy to allow a major mode to declare
> itself the spiritual heir of various other major modes beside the one
> from which it actually inherits.
>
> We already have some very basic such cases in our own code:
> - `locate-mode` inherits from `special-mode` but declares itself
> as a child of `dired-mode`.
> - CEDET declares that `c++-mode` is a child of `c-mode`.
>
> I'd been toying with this idea for a while because it has seemed useful
> a few times, tho until now there seemed to be good enough alternatives.
> But in order to really support AUCTeX modes well, we do need such
> a thing: we need `LaTeX-mode` to be able to declare itself as a child
> of `latex-mode` (even tho it does not inherit from it) so that
> directory-local variables are properly applied to it, which is
> a fairly common use case.
>
> I pushed to the branch `feature/derived-mode-add-parents` a bunch of
> patches which add support for such limited form of `multiple
> inheritance`.
>
> The patch is fairly large because it goes through all the code that
> uses the `derived-mode-parent` property and adjusts it to use
> a few new functions:
>
> - `derived-mode-set-parent` and `derived-mode-all-parents` cover
> basically all previous uses of the `derived-mode-parent` property.
> - `derived-mode-add-parents` to declare additional parents.
>
> The patch also consolidates the code that linearizes the inheritance
> hierarchy of CL classes, EIEIO classes, and major modes.
>
> You can see below the corresponding commit log.
> There are no doc (or etc/NEWS) changes yet.
> Any comment/objection?
Great work! Thanks! I need to find some time to read through the changes, but sounds promising.
Yuan
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-09 5:38 bug#67008: 30.0.50; Multiple major mode parents Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-09 7:43 ` Yuan Fu [this message]
2023-11-12 22:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-16 15:16 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-11 0:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-11 4:23 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-11 10:14 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-11-11 16:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-11 18:12 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-11-11 18:43 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-11 20:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-12 13:37 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-11-12 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-13 12:45 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-11-13 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-13 16:44 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-11-13 17:46 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-16 11:07 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-11-16 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-16 19:35 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-11-16 21:40 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-17 14:04 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-11-17 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-17 16:15 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-11-11 12:21 ` Ikumi Keita
2023-11-11 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-12 9:50 ` Ikumi Keita
2023-11-12 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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