From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rewriting make-docfile.c in Lisp?
Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 17:18:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvv97wga2b.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dyzgx9djza.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 05 May 2021 16:05:45 -0400")
>> Agreed: I'm generally all for writing ELisp instead of C, but
>> I wouldn't bother rewriting this code in ELisp, personally.
> Sounds like the etc/TODO entry that suggests doing just this should be
> updated/removed then. It refers to
> https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2012-06/msg00037.html
But there the idea was specifically for the scan of .el(c) files and not
for the scan of C files. Also the idea was not to implement a new
scanning code but to do it from existing code that already looks at
the files (e.g. `autoloads.el` or the `bytecomp.el`).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-05 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-05 15:56 Rewriting make-docfile.c in Lisp? sbaugh
2021-05-05 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-05 16:49 ` Spencer Baugh
2021-05-05 17:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-05-05 18:39 ` Spencer Baugh
2021-05-05 19:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-05 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-05 19:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-05 20:05 ` Glenn Morris
2021-05-05 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-05-05 21:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-05 21:11 ` Spencer Baugh
2021-05-06 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-05 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-05 21:27 ` Spencer Baugh
2021-05-05 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
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