Re: Dynamically deriving major mode from prog-mode or fundamental-mode
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Dominik Honnef writes:
> For what it is worth, go-mode does not depend on any behaviour set up by
> prog-mode – and there's generally not much that prog-mode does, its whole
> definition fits into 20 lines of code.
OK, so let's Just Do It, then. The existence of prog-mode doesn't
mean we have to fix all of our other modes to use it immediately, it
seems.
If you want to help with that, you could try pulling GNU's prog-mode
into your XEmacs load-path (in a new file if "prog-mode.el" doesn't
exist), and see if anything horrible happens.
I honestly couldn't tell if "anything horrible happens". My interactions
with XEmacs are limited to ensuring that go-mode works in it. Apart from
that I do not use XEmacs.
But on a quick glance I couldn't find any references to prog-mode in any
of XEmacs's lisp files and given the nature of prog-mode, I doubt it
could have any side-effects.
You could even take control of the situation by becoming the
prog-mode
maintainer for the XEmacs package system. This amounts to
I think maintaining it should be left to someone who is actually
involved/familiar with XEmacs :-)
Cheers,
Dominik
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