Re: You don't understand. I'm not locked up in here with all of you. You're all locked up in here with me."

["Joshua Crean" <joshua.crean@gmail.com>]

well since no one seems to have any objections.... :)

I've just started porting our elisp utils to an emacs mode. I've been
reading the documentation in the online gnu elisp reference manual
(http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html) and it almost
seems like we may want to actually create a derived major mode instead
of a minor mode.

Minor modes are supposed to be independant of any other major/minor
modes, but many of our utilities are dependant on cperl-mode
functionality. So it sounds like what we could do is create a major
mode that derives from cperl-mode and adds the additional
functionality (see
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Derived-Modes.html#Derived-Modes)

Just wanted to start throwing some initial thoughts out there.
Thoughts? Anyone else have experience with doing this?

-Josh

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Kyle R. Burton <kyle.burton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So, it looks like Josh and I are going to embark on refactoring some
> elisp so it's less specific to our current environment and so it's
> more generic and re-useable (extensible).  Josh has created a google
> code project:
>
>  http://code.google.com/p/perl-devel-mode/
>
> and we've uploaded some broken code to it.  Our plans are to turn it
> into a full blown mode, taking inspiration from cperl-mode and
> paredit-mode (we've already got a very rudimentary kill-expression
> which has helped our productivity).  Anyone else willing to give
> guidance as we start on the path of making it into a mode?
>
> Also, why aren't we using this list to talk about FP?  Is the group
> good if we use it to discuss what we're doing in elisp?  Not pure FP,
> but still a lisp.
>
>
> ?
>
> Kyle
>