Re: [ELPA] New package: arm-mode

[Charles Jackson <charles.b.jackson@protonmail.com>]

I didn't do the derivation because I couldn't get it to work properly. Arm-mode has automatic indentation with TAB which asm-mode doesn't have, but I haven't seen anyone use that in assembler languages other than arm.


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On Saturday, August 10, 2019 9:37 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

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> > Arm-mode is not meant as a replacement for asm-mode; It is
>
> > specialized for Arm assembler language. I provides specialized
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> > syntax highlighting and indentation (for a smaller file size). It
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> > also uses Arm style comments (@ and /* */) instead of the ; used
>
> > in asm-mode.
>
> Did you define it as a derivative on asm-mode? That is the clean way
> to do it.
>
> Does it offer any additional features, or only specialize the asm-mode
> features? I ask because, if there are additional features, it would
> be useful to generalize them and put them into asm-mode.
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