From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Simon South <ssouth@simonsouth.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:49:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlj75tzwk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284375705.2262.4.camel@hamlet.localdomain> (Simon South's message of "Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:01:45 -0400")
>> One thing I'd like to see with delphi.el (other than renaming it) is to
>> use "standard" facilities like the syntax-table, rather than do all the
>> parsing by hand.
>> Do you have any idea what that would take?
> No, this is all still pretty new to me. Is there a guide to best
> practices for major modes anywhere, or could you suggest a "good" mode I
> could use as an example?
I've been working on octave-mod.el to make it use generic facilities
(some of them brand new), so you could use it as a guide.
I don't vouch for the whole octave-mod.el file, but at least the
syntax-table, buffer-navigation, and indentation should be a reasonably
good example. You can try it on test/indent/octave.m.
If you have a good Object Pascal file to use, we could add it as
test/indent/opascal.pas which could also be used for regression tests
(e.g. of the indentation code).
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-13 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-12 16:03 Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 11:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 11:36 ` Simon South
2010-09-10 12:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 13:25 ` Simon South
2010-09-11 9:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-13 10:50 ` Simon South
2010-09-11 5:30 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-11 9:28 ` Simon South
2010-09-11 10:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-13 11:01 ` Simon South
2010-09-13 15:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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