From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Include modern-cpp-font-lock into GNU Emacs
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 08:31:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwosmzgi6.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4e10dfa3-4793-f680-8a85-78a489884cad@lud.cc
> I believe the issue is broader than m-c-f-l and cc-mode. The difference
> between an Emacs release cycle (where Emacs provides a built-in support for
> some languages, like cc-mode, python, ruby-mode, etc.) and the release cycle
> of a language can lead to a long delay to get things right (such as font
> locking). Having the language support delivered via a package manager makes
> the updates less dependent of release cycles.
So, distributing CC-mode as a GNU ELPA package (like we already do for
python.el, org-mode, and a few other bundled packages) would solve this
problem, right?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-19 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-06 20:24 Include modern-cpp-font-lock into GNU Emacs Ludwig PACIFICI
2018-08-11 14:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-08-12 0:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-19 11:16 ` Ludwig PACIFICI
2018-08-19 12:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-08-20 3:03 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-20 8:38 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-20 9:28 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2018-08-20 10:51 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-20 11:28 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-20 17:54 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2018-08-20 19:45 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-22 12:46 ` Noam Postavsky
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