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Re: [PLUG] Writing Emacs Modes
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Hi
K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
> Use my preferred (lazy programmer) software development technique:
I thought laziness is one of the virtues of a programmer. Programmer
implies laziness.
> 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!
So you are saying all GNU & open source license are plagiarism.
I am confused.
With regards
Antony
>
> 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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