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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:17:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k2hsbxfv.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160421213323.GD1775@acm.fritz.box> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Thu, 21 Apr 2016 21:33:23 +0000")

>>>>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> The essence of major mode support is buffer local variables. (Things like
> the syntax table and local key map are basically buffer local variables,
> even though they are not accessible as such from Lisp.) So, at first sight,
> each "island" in the buffer needs its own set of "buffer local" variables.

I don't agree that this is the essence of major mode support. Another aspect
of major modes is an expectation of which text properties might occur
throughout the buffer, and where and why.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-13 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-20 19:44 A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-20 21:06 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-20 23:00   ` Drew Adams
2016-04-21 12:43   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-21 14:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-23  2:20       ` zhanghj
2016-04-23 22:36       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-04-21 16:05     ` Drew Adams
2016-04-21 16:31       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <<64f1d39a-dfd0-44ca-86c1-b4d6104b5702@default>
     [not found]       ` <<83oa926i0e.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-04-21 16:59         ` Drew Adams
2016-04-21 19:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <<<64f1d39a-dfd0-44ca-86c1-b4d6104b5702@default>
     [not found]       ` <<<83oa926i0e.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]         ` <<791d74d1-2b1d-4304-8e7e-d6c31af7aa41@default>
     [not found]           ` <<83eg9y68jy.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-04-21 20:26             ` Drew Adams
2016-04-20 22:27 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-21  9:14   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-22 12:45     ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-21 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-21 21:33   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-21 22:01     ` Drew Adams
2016-04-22  8:13       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-22 17:04         ` Drew Adams
2016-04-22  9:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-13 21:17     ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-06-14 13:13       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-06-14 16:27         ` John Wiegley
2016-04-21 22:19   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-22  8:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-22 22:35       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-23  7:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-23 17:02           ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-23 18:12             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-23 18:26               ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-04-23 21:08               ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-24  6:29                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-24 16:57                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-24 19:59                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-25  6:49                       ` Andreas Röhler
2016-04-22 13:42     ` Andy Moreton
2016-04-23 17:14       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-22 14:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-04-22 18:58 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-22 20:22   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-23 12:27     ` Andreas Röhler
2016-04-23 12:38     ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-23 17:31       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-24  9:22         ` Richard Stallman

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