From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is is a major or minor mode? Date: 31 Oct 2002 12:29:57 +0000 Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036067596 3122 80.91.224.249 (31 Oct 2002 12:33:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:33:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 187EVf-0000o7-00 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:33:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187EUI-0002Kz-00; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:31:50 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!server1.netnews.ja.net!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bromine.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk 1036067399 24774 193.62.192.35 (31 Oct 2002 12:29:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@net.bio.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:29:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.91 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106611 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3162 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3162 >>>>> "Galen" == Galen Boyer writes: Galen> I want this to be available in both SQLi and sql-mode buffers Galen> and piggyback on its comint integration. I was planning to Galen> write a wrapper around the login functionality of sql.el Galen> which would then define the specific variables that the Galen> sql-mode and sqli buffers needed to know about to get at the Galen> *bsh* variables. I'm just not sure if this is the right plan Galen> to proceed with. Should I make my own major-mode and steal Galen> liberally from sql.el? I think that the answer to this is partly sociological. Is sql.el very large? Is it being actively developed? If the answer is yes to either of these the code stealing option would be much less attractive. Incidentally the mode sounds excellent! I'd like a really nice SQL mode, with JDBC connectivity. Cheers Phil