From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interface of prog-prettification Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:13:53 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: References: Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371496457 24413 80.91.229.3 (17 Jun 2013 19:14:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:14:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 17 21:14:18 2013 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 1Uoesa-0008J4-Ok for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:14:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42636 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uoesa-0008A3-7r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:14:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46034) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UoesV-00089y-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:14:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UoesU-00024K-RV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40362) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UoesU-00024C-LA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UoesP-0007x6-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:14:05 +0200 Original-Received: from 11.79-161-196.customer.lyse.net ([79.161.196.11]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:14:05 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 11.79-161-196.customer.lyse.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:14:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 11.79-161-196.customer.lyse.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:evCGeCfLhWIR9q5B9X/JhkCDRD0= 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:160517 Archived-At: On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:04:40 +0200 Juanma Barranquero wrote: JB> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Stefan Monnier JB> wrote: >> That is a claim that 3 people have a use case for it and that one of >> those use cases involves the words TODO and README. >> >> But I don't see any description of a concrete use case here. JB> a facility for ["visually" replacing one string by another]) could JB> be useful (via composition, display specs, or whatever) but I don't JB> think it is something specifically related to prog mode or symbol JB> prettification. Seems like some sort of as-yet-unimplemented minor JB> mode to me. OK. JB> Speaking of which... Why is this symbol prettification some JB> semi-obscure feature of programming modes, instead of a minor mode to JB> be enabled by the user however he sees fit? Because most non-programming modes don't deal with symbols, and all the use cases I knew were for programming modes. But it would work as a minor mode, sure. If you'd like to implement it that way, feel free. Just remove the old defcustom and whatever else you don't need anymore. Ted