Re: Autoload cookies with derived modes?

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 08:55, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Ville> There's something hairy about autoload cookies with derived > Ville> modes. An example of this would be php-mode.el from > Ville> prog-modes. The version currently in CVS doesn't work as > Ville> it should out of the box, when doing a "xemacs > Ville> some_file.php" with it, I get: > > Yep. > > I don't know how this works, exactly, but what you want to do is fix > the autoload support code (not the derived mode support) to extract > that define-derived-mode sexp and do it exactly as you did by hand. > Look for comments/patches by Didier Verna, perhaps, give him a buzz > (didier.verna(a)xemacs.org). There's a patch at [1] that seems to be the fix for this. It's already applied to 21.5, but I think it would be good to get this stuff working on 21.4 too. A downloadable version that applies cleanly to release-21-4 is at [2]. What do you think, Stephen? [1] <http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200108/msg00023.html> [2] <http://cvs.xemacs.org/viewcvs.cgi/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/autoload.el.diff?r1=... -- \/ille Skyttä ville.skytta at xemacs.org