On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 4:46 PM Eli Zaretskii <
eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:35:14 +0100
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, 40573@debbugs.gnu.org,
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>
> > Which code?
>
> The code of the proposed new mode.
>
> That has been shown already by Stefan's patch, way back.
And I already rejected it. If we want to have a mode, let's have a
mode, to support all the good features discussed lately here. Like a
lighter, code that injects the mode into auto-generated files and
turns on automatically for non-generated ones, etc. A clean job, IOW.
Can you explain what is dirty about having that mode for a subset
of files that _could_ make use of it and having the user select
it via M-x lisp-data-mode when he thinks it's useful? Can you give
evidence of any benefit to your all-or-nothing stance here?
I've explained, many times, that turning it on automatically for
non-generated files, is impossible to achieve. Do you disagree
with this statement? Maybe you do, perhaps you're seeing
something I don't or we're talking about different lisp-data-mode's.
João