From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs mode line suggestions
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:54:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gftosm$rms$1@news.motzarella.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: TIOdnScx8NXl1r_UnZ2dnUVZ_vWdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net
"B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:
> Xah wrote:
>> On Nov 17, 6:33 pm, "B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> wrote:
>>> But if a user is interested in working with Emacs rather than just
>>> playing with it, she will know the suffix that will trigger the
>>> correct mode.
>>
>> You missed the point. When a programer work with multiple langs, and
>> when he create a buffer for scratch purposes, there is a need to
>> switch to switch mode.
>
> If he creates it then he will have to name it. Let the mode depend on
> the name. I can see (sort of) why assembler might need to be in a .c
> buffer but you certainly don't need text blocks from many different
> languages in the same temp buffer, do you? Why? On the off chance that
> you really do need all of them then it seems that some new mixed mode
> should be designed.
Practically any web page in existence? mixture of xhtml, php, javascript
etc. Mind you that web thingy, it will never catch on :-; nxhtml works
well for that. I would certainly have used the scratch more if the
language mode was a click away - now its second nature to do it using
M-x.
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2008-11-14 23:18 ` emacs mode line suggestions Xah
2008-11-15 1:02 ` xahlee
2008-11-15 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.423.1226741023.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16 1:54 ` Xah
2008-11-16 18:12 ` Ian Eure
2008-11-18 9:39 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-11-18 23:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.518.1226859137.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16 18:20 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-16 23:12 ` Ian Eure
2008-11-17 8:37 ` Paul R
2008-11-17 15:45 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.604.1226937124.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-17 16:11 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-17 18:53 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-17 19:10 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-17 19:57 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-17 20:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.621.1226951870.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-17 21:42 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-18 0:55 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.641.1226969742.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-18 1:08 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-18 2:55 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-17 23:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-18 7:52 ` Paul R
2008-11-18 13:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <mailman.543.1226877138.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16 23:35 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-16 22:45 ` Xah
2008-11-16 21:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.536.1226871605.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16 23:17 ` Xah
2008-11-17 20:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-17 23:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-18 0:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-18 9:32 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-11-18 9:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <mailman.633.1226964831.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-18 9:46 ` Fabrice Niessen
[not found] ` <mailman.623.1226954396.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-17 22:09 ` Xah
2008-11-18 2:33 ` B. T. Raven
2008-11-18 3:24 ` Xah
2008-11-18 4:58 ` B. T. Raven
2008-11-18 6:54 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2008-11-18 4:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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