From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jared Craig Ahern Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: How to update major modes? Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:03:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192171103 25598 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2007 06:38:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:38:23 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 08:38:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IgE9k-0003b1-8K for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:37:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgE9e-0005wd-4N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:37:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ig4FY-0005Nd-2B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:03:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ig4FW-0005Ms-D1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from biscayne-one-station.mit.edu ([18.7.7.80]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ig4FW-0000eG-78 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l9BK3CUC022112 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:03:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from grumpy-fuzzball.mit.edu (GRUMPY-FUZZBALL.MIT.EDU [18.7.18.69]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as jahern@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l9BK3BvB011929 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:03:11 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from jahern@localhost) by grumpy-fuzzball.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id l9BK3A4M026979; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:03:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:29:36 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16727 Archived-At: Hello! I use emacs all the time, mainly to edit LaTeX and Fortran 95/2003 files (also make and python). I have noticed that some of the keywords that I commonly used are not recognized by emacs, which causes minor annoyances such as missing syntax highlighting (e.g. 'protected' in Fortran) or attempting to spellcheck within labels (e.g. '\autoref{}' in LaTeX/hyperref). Not being familiar with how to help out on GNU projects, what is the best way for me to contribute minor changes to some of the major mode lisp files? Do I have to assign copyright and checkout the CVS tree, or can i just email snibbets somewhere? Does, for example, f90.el or tex-mode.el have specific maintainers that I should talk to? Also, if these problems are solved by a feature that I am not aware of, or if I missed something explaining how to do subissions on the website or wiki, please let me know. Sorry if I'm asking an obvious question. Thanks! Jared