From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: immerrr again <immerrr+lua@gmail.com>
Cc: Lua mailing list <lua-l@lists.lua.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Last call for lua-mode contributors
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:32:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo4nvt7hqe.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAERznn9+Y8OFPBNSDk=S_wRF+eP0u4_zfzUQjA9=Y=f=zf+MKw@mail.gmail.com>
immerrr again <immerrr+lua@gmail.com> writes:
> As some of you might know, lua-mode, Emacs major mode for editing Lua, is
> undergoing integration to Emacs mainline.
Hopefully lua-mode's bogus handling of symbols vs. words will finally
be fixed as a result.....
[lua-mode redefines "_" as a word-component; it shouldn't, as it
really messes with users' instincts, and makes Emacs commands less
useful. Historically this was often done by language-modes as an
simple (though misguided) expedient to allow them to safely use "\<"
and \>" in regexps matching keywords, but nowadays they shouldn't do
that, they should leave "_" alone and use "\_<" and "\_>" instead.]
A few years ago (one of the previous times an attempt was being made
to include lua-mode), of the lua-mode authors mentioned he was of the
opinion that the existing lua-mode was such a huge hack that it should
just be rewritten from scratch anyway (and said he planned to, but
never seemed to get the time).
If author-archeology proves sufficiently painful, maybe that would
indeed be the more expedient option (especially as there are more nice
tools in emacs for writing modes these days, e.g., Stefan's
parser-thingy)!
-Miles
--
Custard, n. A vile concoction produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen,
the cow, and the cook.
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2012-01-18 4:32 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2012-01-19 17:15 ` Last call for lua-mode contributors Ken Raeburn
2012-01-19 18:57 ` Underscores and word commands Stefan Monnier
2012-01-19 20:39 ` John Yates
2012-01-20 21:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-20 5:12 ` Last call for lua-mode contributors Miles Bader
2012-01-20 7:12 ` Ken Raeburn
2012-01-20 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-21 3:20 ` Miles Bader
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