GNU bug report logs - #16797
24.3.50; `emacs-lisp-mode' does not derive from `lisp-mode'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:14:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 16797 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#16797: 24.3.50; `emacs-lisp-mode' does not derive from `lisp-mode'
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:11:57 -0700

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> This is as much a question as a bug report, but this seems a better
>> place to ask it than emacs-devel <at> gnu.org:
>> Why is `emacs-lisp-mode' derived from `prog-mode' and not `lisp-mode'?
>
> Hysterical raisins?
>
> We could/should probably restructure it a bit, with a common ancestor
> `lisp-mode' and then have scheme-mode, emacs-lisp-mode, and
> common-lisp-mode derive from it.
>
> Patch welcome (after the unfreeze),

Is this still relevant now that emacs-lisp-mode inherits lisp-data-mode
(which inherits prog-mode)?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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