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: On (Free)BASIC mode Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:10:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4CD66436.7060302@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289160623 7945 80.91.229.12 (7 Nov 2010 20:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 07 21:10:18 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 1PFBZ7-0005U3-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:10:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37985 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PFBZ7-0001qw-6y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:10:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43459 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PFBZ3-0001qP-3C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFBZ2-0006JO-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:10:08 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:13915 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PFBZ1-0006JJ-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:10:08 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoEKACqW1kxMCpqE/2dsb2JhbAChCX9yuESFSASEWI1a X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.58,310,1286164800"; d="scan'208";a="81870939" Original-Received: from 76-10-154-132.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.154.132]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 07 Nov 2010 15:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 442D9A86CC; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 15:10:06 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4CD66436.7060302@alice.it> (Angelo Graziosi's message of "Sun, 07 Nov 2010 09:32:54 +0100") 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:132430 Archived-At: > In lisp/progmodes I see a lot of 'modes' for several programming languages, > WHY not for (Free)BASIC [1]? Because noone has submitted one, I guess. Also because the visual-basic-mode.el is supposedly only providing support for a proprietary language (well, I don't know if the language itself is protected in any way, but at least I only know of one implementation for it and it's proprietary). Stefan