GNU bug report logs - #43713
26.3; doc of `define-generic-mode'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:56:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26.3; doc of `define-generic-mode'
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:55:00 -0700 (PDT)

The doc string says nothing at all about what a generic mode is.

(elisp) `Generic Modes' says only this:

  "Generic modes" are simple major modes with basic support for comment
  syntax and Font Lock mode.

Is that all users need to know about a generic mode?

Can we at least say something like that in the doc string?



In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2019-08-29
Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.18362
Configured using:
 `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 294 days ago.

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