K.S. Bhaskar on 7 Jul 2008 11:38:33 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Writing Emacs Modes


Use my preferred (lazy programmer) software development technique:
find code for another mode that sorta kinda does what you want and
hack it.  I call it programming by plagiarism and I am proud to be a
practitioner!

Caveat: read the license for what you use and follow it.  I'm not
recommending that you rip off something whose ripping off is not
permissible.

-- Bhaskar

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Joshua Crean <joshua.crean@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At my company, we currently have a collection of elisp utilities that
> we use to enhance our perl development process (think cperl-mode
> extensions, except its not an actual mode). The problem is that there
> is a good bit of business-specific code in there, so what I'd really
> like to do is factor out the generic functionality and turn it into a
> minor mode that could be used by anyone.
>
> I'm somewhat familiar with elisp at this point, but I've never
> actually written a mode for Emacs, so I'm just looking for some advice
> or helpful resources that'll get me started. Any opinions on
> O'Reilly's "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions"? Any other wisdom in
> general?
>
> -Josh
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