Re: Maintenance suggestion on an emacs mode

["paul r" <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>]

2008/4/4, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
> > Please find attached patches.
>  > 3 questions :
>  >  - why is sgml in textmodes ?
>  >  - files are not indented according to emacs lisp default rules,
>  > should I resend a patch with full reindentation according-to-mode ?
>  > Attached patches do not change indentation.
>  >  - When testing this kind of modifications, I could not find a way to
>  > unload a mode so that I could make a modification, and reload the
>  > mode. I ended up closing and reopening an emacs instance for that :)
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> Seeing how you're participating actively, you should sign
>  copyright paperwork.  I might be able to consider the current patch as
>  a "tiny change", but that's already pushing it.
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I'm already in this process, papers are probably somewhere between
Boston and Paris.
Would you answer my questions, please ? It might save some of my time
later, particulary if I decide to fix myself all those modes for which
maintainers do not seem to be availables anymore. thx

paul

>         Stefan
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