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: Oop customization group Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:06:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <93AA5CFC-247B-4DD7-9E4E-168F8D6DB7D4@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244315223 22571 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2009 19:07:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 19:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 06 21:07:01 2009 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 4.50) id 1MD1EL-0002tC-5S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:07:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50203 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MD1EK-0002DC-Mz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:07:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MD1EF-0002Cx-C8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:06:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MD1EA-0002BL-Tc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:06:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42383 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MD1EA-0002BI-NX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:35123 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MD1EA-0004m5-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:06:50 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhIFAKtbKkpFxJoQ/2dsb2JhbACBT8wehAoFhgg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,316,1241409600"; d="scan'208";a="39726144" Original-Received: from 69-196-154-16.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.154.16]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 06 Jun 2009 15:06:46 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6CD6CB45E9; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:06:46 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <93AA5CFC-247B-4DD7-9E4E-168F8D6DB7D4@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:24:24 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:111358 Archived-At: > There's a customization group defined, Oop, that's been in there since 1997, > but at least in my build it is empty. I couldn't find anything refer > to it. > cus-edit.el: > (defgroup oop nil > "Support for object-oriented programming." > :group 'programming) Should be removed, indeed. > Also, I don't think the structure of these groups is very well though out: It's not. It'd be good to improve it. Thanks to the fact that we have multiple-inheritance, such improvement can be done incrementally. General suggestions for useful categories would be welcome (both category name and clear description of what it shoujld contain). We could start with `major-mode' (which I'd constrain to be modes for use in files-buffers) and `minor-mode'. Stefan