From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Backporting changes into emacs-23 prior to pretest Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:17:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87aam38rr0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87mxpqqmjm.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288881642 18623 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2010 14:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 14:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 04 15:40:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PE0zF-0004rj-Ne for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:40:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47981 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PE0z3-0004as-4l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:40:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51100 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PE0wE-0002h8-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PE0cr-0006bB-IZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:17:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:2406 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PE0cq-0006ap-2q; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:17:12 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AogKALJd0kzO+LrP/2dsb2JhbACgcIEFcr0nhUYEki0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.58,296,1286164800"; d="scan'208";a="81580194" Original-Received: from 206-248-186-207.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.186.207]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 04 Nov 2010 10:17:11 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 42080A8626; Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:17:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:09:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132359 Archived-At: >>> How about the changes to make major modes derive from `prog-mode'? >>> [This is not quite finished, but it won't be too hard to finish it...] >> These is mostly a cleanup, right? I don't think it's worth backporting >> either. > It's a new feature. If all programming modes are derived from > `prog-mode', then one can do: > (add-hook 'prog-mode 'flyspell-prog-mode) > to turn on the fly spell checking for comments and strings in all > programming modes. This is not complete on the trunk either. So if > you have an aggressive schedule to get the release out, we can let > this one go. It's just a new feature, which has been missing for many years and yet hasn't generated too much noise over those years, so it's not particularly pressing. Stefan