xpm mode question
Byrel Mitchell writes:
I've been fiddling around a little with xpm-mode, but I don't
understand
something.
Does anyone know why it's implemented as a minor mode with a mandated major
mode? I would have thought it would have been a major mode derived from
picture mode.
Is there something I'm missing?
This comment from xpm-mode.el is suggestive:
;; I am a lisp newbie, practically everything in here I had to look up
;; in the manual. It probably shows, suggestions for coding
;; improvements are welcomed.
Also, in 1995 define-derived-mode may not have been available, which
would make doing things that way hard for a newbie.
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