From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: aaditya sood Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Kickstarter for Emacs Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:04:41 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <8D732A9A-AB26-4D7F-BAC6-EE901D575957@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334776225 19942 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2012 19:10:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:10:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 18 21:10:24 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SKaGk-00080i-Ax for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:10:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38965 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKaGj-0000Ia-CS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52885) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKaGg-0000IU-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKaGb-00055l-5y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:10:17 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SKaGa-00053q-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:10:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SKaGR-0007ne-N5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:10:05 +0200 Original-Received: from ABTS-KK-Dynamic-070.120.167.122.airtelbroadband.in ([ABTS-KK-Dynamic-070.120.167.122.airtelbroadband.in]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from aaditya by ABTS-KK-Dynamic-070.120.167.122.airtelbroadband.in with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:10:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 122.167.120.70 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.163 Safari/535.19) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149781 Archived-At: Ivan Andrus gmail.com> writes: >How much would it cost me to get the python modes combined into one? >Ideally being backwards compatible with your python-mode of choice. >This is a perfect project I think because it's a large initial >undertaking but no additional maintenance work would be necessary once >it's done. If nothing else we could use the money to pay people to >not use different modes. I would happily contribute $200 towards project for out-of-box python completion and structure parsing. Semantic and cedet, while great, are slow for large projects and make emacs perceptively slow. >Really good support for multiple modes is another that would get lots >of backers I think. I certainly don't have the expertise to even >speculate on how hard it would be, but I would be willing to pitch in >some money for it if I thought it would actually get done well. I say >that not to disparage mmm-mode and friends, but I think it has to be >taken into account at a very low level. This is another pet peeve. Especially for writing html with css, javascript and mako. nxhtml-mode is pretty cool, but again makes emacs slow. I'd like some support in core emacs, which would be hopefully faster. -- aaditya