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Re: cperl-mode and fontlock
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: cperl-mode and fontlock |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:50:56 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:04:25 +0000 (UTC) Ilya Zakharevich
<nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> wrote:
IZ> On 2009-09-28, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>> Ilya, it looks like Chong Yidong has synchronized 6.2 into the Emacs
>> trunk.
IZ> How much does it differ from what was done a decade ago? That time
IZ> a brave guy volunteered and converted cperl-mode to new conventions.
IZ> Only years of user experiences had shown that this introduced so many
IZ> bugs that the mode is IMO unusable.
I don't know, sorry. I am only trying to get you to discuss it on
emacs-devel.
>> Can you follow up on emacs-devel and clear up any remaining issues?
IZ> Could not find it on gmane.emacs.devel...
Here's a reference:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/115635/focus=115643
>> I'd like to make sure the Emacs version of cperl-mode doesn't
>> get out of sync again, and it's good that Chong (one of the two current
>> Emacs maintainers) feels strongly enough to synchronize against your
>> version.
IZ> The only practically viable solution I can see is to aim for identical
IZ> byte-code between "my" version and Emacs's one... (At least with some
IZ> "define"; the default compile may aim for distinct bytecode, but all
IZ> the corresponding places in the .el file should be easily identifyable...)
I don't know if this is practical for everyone, but I hope you can
discuss it on emacs-devel.
Thanks
Ted